取出一個list或者tuple的一部分，最笨的方法有：

>>> L = ["python","java","oc","swift"]
>>> x = [L[0],L[1]]
>>> x
['python', 'java']

取出前n個，也可以使用循環的方式：

>>> L = ["python","java","oc","swift"]
>>> n = 3
>>> y = []
>>> for i in range(n):
...     y.append(L[i])
... 
>>> y
['python', 'java', 'oc']

不過，循環的方式過于復雜。

Python提供了切片操作符，能夠大大簡化這種操作。

>>> L = ["python","java","oc","swift"]
>>> x = L[0:3]
>>> x
['python', 'java', 'oc']

[m:n]表示從第m個索引開始，到第n個索引結束，不包括第n個索引。例如上面[0:3]:表示從第0個開始，第3個結束，不包括第3個。

也可以不寫起始，默認從0開始：

>>> L = ["python","java","oc","swift"]
>>> x = L[:3]
>>> x
['python', 'java', 'oc']

Python支持L[-1]取倒數第一個元素，當然也支持倒數切片。

>>> L
['python', 'java', 'oc', 'swift']
>>> L[-1]
'swift'

倒數切片：

>>> L[-2:]
['oc', 'swift']

>>> L[-1:]
['swift']

>>> L[-2:-1]
['oc']

倒數第一個的索引是-1。

下面是關于切片的其它相關操作：

前10個，逢兩個取一個：

>>> L = range(100)
>>> L[:10:2]
[0, 2, 4, 6, 8]

所有數，逢五個取一個：

>>> L[::5]
[0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95]

復制這個list：

>>> X = L[:]
>>> X
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99]

tuple也是一種list，只是tuple不可變。
tuple也可以切片操作，操作結果仍然是tuple：

>>> (1,2,3,4,5)[:3]
(1, 2, 3)

字符串也可以，操作完仍然是字符串：

>>> "helloworld"[:5]
'hello'