hie Joe. firstly for challenge 1, in order to do that in one step you can try combining your two steps like this.

new_list = the_list.insert(0,the_list.pop(3))

this line creates a new variable new_list that stores the updated list. we first use the .insert method, we want to insert our number at index 0 and what we want to insert is the 1 which we can obtain by using the pop like you did.

for challenge two we are told to remove the string, boolean, and list members of the_list. you did that quite well for the string and the list of numbers. you also didn't have to remove the 2 and 3, ist not stated in the question. you also didn't have to add the prefix bool because its already built in that is the language already knows that False is a bolean.

the_list.remove('a')

the_list.remove(False)

the_list.remove([1, 2, 3])

lastly we want to extend our list so that it contains only the numbers 1 through 20. NOTE our list already contains the numbers 1,2 and 3. now to add 4 to 20 we use

new_list = the_list.extend(range(4,21))

this we add the numbers 4 upto 21. hop this helps, don't hesitate to get back to me if it doesn't work.

Haha, I wasted so much time trying to do this in one in a loop! The simplest answer is always the best :)