Cleanest way to get last item from Python iterator

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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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