You can use negative integers with the slicing operator for that. Here’s an example using the python CLI interpreter:
>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
>>> a
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
>>> a[-9:]
[4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
the important line is a[-9:]