# List without last element

Canonical: https://www.wiki.jodisand.me/snippets/python/initial/


Returns all the elements of a list except the last one.

- Use `lst[:-1]` to return all but the last element of the list.

```py
def initial(lst):
  return lst[:-1]
```

```py
initial([1, 2, 3]) # [1, 2]
```