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Yusuf Gillani
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 3,643 PointsI don't know how to do reverse_evens function.
def first_4(iterable): return iterable[:4]
def first_and_last_4(iterable): return iterable[:4] + iterable[-4:]
def odds(iterable): return iterable[1::2]
def reverse_evens(iterable): return iterable[::-2]
def first_4(iterable):
return iterable[:4]
def first_and_last_4(iterable):
return iterable[:4] + iterable[-4:]
def odds(iterable):
return iterable[1::2]
def reverse_evens(iterable):
return iterable[::-2]
2 Answers

Steven Parker
216,175 PointsGood start! What you have will already work half of the time (depending on the length of the list). To make it work for all cases, there's two basic strategies:
- compute the slice "start" value based on the length (actually even/odd-ness) of the list
- take the even indexed items and then reverse them with a separate operation
Either method will work when properly implemented. Hint: the second method may be a bit easier to do.

Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi, Yusuf Gillani! Looks like you're doing terrific. The last part is a little tricky and your code would work in approximately half of the cases. Namely, it would work when there are an odd number off elements. The example it gives is [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
and expects back [5, 3, 1]
which your code does. However, if we change that to [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
, it gives back [6, 4, 2]
but those are at the odd indexes.
New plan of attack: first pick every other item and then reverse it.
Hope this helps!
edited for minor correction:

Steven Parker
216,175 PointsIn your second example you get the even numbers, but the are at the odd indexes.

Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherSteven Parker yup woops Correcting now! (Had even numbers on the brain for obvious reasons
)

Samuel Blowe
3,011 PointsThis helped me a lot. Thank you!