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Python

Blair Owens
Blair Owens
8,235 Points
Posted by Blair Owens
Blair Owens
8,235 Points

Is there an error with Treehouse or am I getting something wrong? Make a function named odds that accepts an iterable

I'm having trouble with this question. It say's it expected "kaoa", I'm not sure where that combination of letters came from and even when I change my code to make that the output, I get another error saying. "Where's odds()?"

Make a function named odds that accepts an iterable as an argument and returns the items with an odd index in the iterable.

Bummer! odds() didn't return the right output. Got [1,3,5], expected kaoa

def odds(list2):
  list2 = [0,1,2,3,4,5]
  odds = list2[1::2]
  return odds

1 Answer

Gene Osborne
Gene Osborne
8,630 Points

Delete the line that says:

list2 = [0,1,2,3,4,5]

This line is redefining the list. You want the list that is passed in as a parameter to be the list that has its odd values returned.

def odds(list2):
  return list2[1::2]