I am executing the below code:

```
s = 'python'
a, b, *c, d = s[0], s[1], s[2:-1], s[-1]
print(c)

```

I am getting output as `['tho']`

Please help me understand why the output is not `['t', 'h', 'o']` ?

As we are using the `* operator` on LHS, so the output should be `['t', 'h', 'o']` and not `['tho']`