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Gian Pompilio
10,463 PointsI think this test is broken
The code I have should work
nums = list(range(0,10))
def first_4(nums):
return nums[:4]
def first_and_last_4(nums):
del nums[4:-4]
return nums
def odds(nums):
return nums[1::2]
def reverse_evens(nums):
return nums[::-2]
2 Answers
Blayne Holland
18,817 PointsMaybe I too am missing something but I agree, That should work
Christian Mangeng
15,969 PointsHave to correct myself regarding the order of steps. It works if you first get all the even indexes of the list, and THEN return that list in reversed order. So now it works even if the length of the list is even.
def reverse_evens(it):
it_new = it[::2]
return it_new[::-1]
Gian Pompilio
10,463 PointsGian Pompilio
10,463 PointsQuestion was...
Make a function named reverse_evens that accepts a single iterable as an argument. Return every item in the iterable with an even index...in reverse. For example, with [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] as the input, the function would return [5, 3, 1].
The first few functions were from other questions in the lesson.