Cleanest way to get last item from Python iterator

iterator, python

Solution

item = defaultvalue
for item in my_iter:
    pass

Problem

What's the best way of getting the last item from an iterator in Python 2.6? For example, say ``` my_iter = iter(range(5)) ``` What is the shortest-code / cleanest way of getting `4` from `my_iter`? I could do this, but it doesn't seem very efficient: ``` [x for x in my_iter][-1] ```

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