why does arr[1,0] return the last item numpy code example

Example: how to get last element in numpy array

In [10]: arr = numpy.array([1,23,4,6,7,8])

In [11]: [(arr[i], arr[-i-1]) for i in range(len(arr) // 2)]
Out[11]: [(1, 8), (23, 7), (4, 6)]