Percent list slicing

originalList.sort()
newList = originalList[int(len(originalList) * .05) : int(len(originalList) * .95)]

size = len(originalList)
newList = originalList[0.05*size - 1:0.95*size + 1]

sl = slice(4, 95)
print(originalList[sl])

Also see http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#slice