How to loop a list in reverse order and skip last element

Question

I know I can have for i in x[::-1]: to loop through a list in reverse order. But what if I want to skip the last element then traverse from high to low? for i in x[-1:0:-1] does not work

x = [1,2,3,4,5]
=> 4,3,2,1         #  desired

for i in x[-1:-1]:
    print(i)

# it does not work

Answer 1

You need to begin from -2 as -1 starts from the last element:

for i in x[-2::-1]:
    print(i)

Alternatively, you can use reversed with list slicing:

for i in reversed(x[:-1]):
    print(i)