qcm - What would be the output of executing the following code:

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What would be the output of executing the following code:

a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
print(a[-4:--1:-1])

[5, 4, 3, 2]

[5, 4]

[5, 4, 3]

IndexError

Explanation:

a[-4:--1:-1] is the same as a[-4:1:-1] and -1 makes it the reverse order. starting at -4 means starting with element 5 till element 2 ie [5, 4, 3]