30-seconds-of-code/snippets/offset.md

title, type, tags, cover, dateModified

title	type	tags	cover	dateModified
Offset list elements	snippet	list	digital-nomad-10	2020-11-02T19:28:27+02:00

Moves the specified amount of elements to the end of the list.

• Use slice notation to get the two slices of the list and combine them before returning.

def offset(lst, offset):
  return lst[offset:] + lst[:offset]

offset([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 2) # [3, 4, 5, 1, 2]
offset([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], -2) # [4, 5, 1, 2, 3]