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Kishore Kumar
5,451 PointsCollection
Make a function named first_4 that accepts an iterable as an argument and returns the first 4 items in the iterable.
3 Answers
Kishore Kumar
5,451 Pointsdef first_4(i): iterable = list(range(i)) return iterable[0:4]
first_4(25)
Kishore Kumar
5,451 Pointsits not working in the code challenge. throwing the error; try Again. But working fine in I-python
def first_4(i): iterable = list(range(i)) return iterable[0:4]
first_4(25) [0, 1, 2, 3]
carlin aylsworth
5,650 PointsYou are attempting to create the iterable inside of the function, instead of passing it to the function like this:
def first_4(iterable):
return iterable[0:4]
example_list = list(range(25))
first_4(example_list)
There is nothing wrong with your slicing, but the exercise is looking for you to pass an iterable into the function from the outside so that you can reuse it for any iterable that you might want the first 4 items from. Does that make sense?
C H
6,587 PointsAn integer is not an iterable; any list or string is, however.
def first_4(iterable):
output = iterable[:4]
return output
input = "Hello World"
sliced = first_4(input)
print(sliced)
#>>>Hell
input = (1, 2, 3, "hi", 4, 5, 6)
sliced = first_4(input)
print(sliced)
#>>>(1, 2, 3, "hi")
carlin aylsworth
5,650 Pointscarlin aylsworth
5,650 PointsWhich part of the assignment, specifically, are you having trouble with?