# Given the following list, write a program that does the following:
# Extract the first 3 elements of the list into a new list
# Extract the characters b, c, and d into a new list
# Extract the last 4 characters into a new list


my_list = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g']

list_1 = my_list[:3]

list_2 = my_list[1:4]

list_3 = my_list[3:7] # can also write my_list[3:] 

print(list_1)
print(list_2)
print(list_3)