for exampleif you want all items from the third item through the last itemyou can start with index and omit the second indexplayers ['charles''martina''michael''florence''eli'print(players[ :]python returns all items from the third item through the end of the list['michael''florence''eli'this syntax allows you to output all of the elements from any point in your list to the end regardless of the length of the list recall that negative index returns an element certain distance from the end of listthereforeyou can output any slice from the end of list for exampleif we want to output the last three players on the rosterwe can use the slice players[- :]players ['charles''martina''michael''florence''eli'print(players[- :]this prints the names of the last three players and would continue to work as the list of players changes in size looping through slice you can use slice in for loop if you want to loop through subset of the elements in list in the next example we loop through the first three players and print their names as part of simple rosterplayers ['charles''martina''michael''florence''eli'print("here are the first three players on my team:" for player in players[: ]print(player title()instead of looping through the entire list of players at upython loops through only the first three nameshere are the first three players on my teamcharles martina michael slices are very useful in number of situations for instancewhen you're creating gameyou could add player' final score to list every time that player finishes playing you could then get player' top three scores by sorting the list in decreasing order and taking slice that includes just the first three scores when you're working with datayou can use slices to process