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Author thejcannon
Recipients brett.cannon, mdk, serhiy.storchaka, thejcannon
Date 2019-09-13.13:43:13
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Pretty much the same reason you would want to slice any other sequence. You want some range of values.

top_most_3_dirs = myPath.parents[-3:]
grandparents_and_beyond = myPath.parents[1:]

The same goes for negative indexes.
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