So the challenge task states

Alright, these tasks are a bit harder than the others so far in this course but I know you can do them!

In this first one, create a function named first_4 that returns the first four items from whatever iterable is given to it.

And with the code I wrote, the program asks for your input, and returns the first 4 places of whatever iterable you put in, which I thought was what they were asking me, but also I remember in a previous challenge I got into trouble with the challenge engine by requiring user input which screwed it up (even though it seemed to be asking for it here). Did I just need to give it a static value? Or did I misread the challenge and do things wrong?

def first_4():
    question = input("What would you like to get the first 4 from?\n>")
    gimmie = question[0:4]
    print (gimmie)

while True:
    first_4()