Access the Last Item with Negative Indexing

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From the lesson: Python Lists: Create, Access, Modify, and Loop Through Lists

Think about your favorite music playlist. It has a bunch of songs stored in a specific order. You can add new songs, remove old ones, rearrange them, or skip to song number five.

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A list of cities is given. Use negative indexing to print the last city in the list.

Expected output:

Tokyo

cities = ["Paris", "London", "New York", "Tokyo"]

# Print the last city using negative indexing

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