Return the first 5 items from a Python list

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Given the list below:

list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

Is there a quick way to get the top 5 items on this list? Something like list.get_first(5)?

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According to this tutorial from the Python documentation, you can use the "slicing" functionality of the lists, making:

first_5 = array[:5]

That will return to the following list:

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

You can also use the contents of the list, following the syntax:

array[start:stop:step]

To illustrate, we can take the number 2 to the 10 by jumping from 2 to 2 (including the 2 and excluding the 10) doing:

list[1:9:2]

Which would result in:

[2, 4, 6, 8]

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