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Python

Michael Dioszeghy
Michael Dioszeghy
2,412 Points

Issue in Python code challenge with Slices

I am working on task 4 in a code challenge and in the workspace, my output looks correct, but the task keeps saying the answers are wrong and I'm not sure why. https://teamtreehouse.com/library/python-collections-2/slices/slice-functions

The task is:

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].

and my function is:

def reverse_evens(item):
    rev_evens = item[::-1]
    reverse = rev_evens[::2]
    return reverse

Any help is appreciated!

Your code is hard to interpret the way you have it. Please put your code in code blocks by surrounding them with 3 back tics ```. Click on the Markdown Cheatsheet for help.

Michael Dioszeghy
Michael Dioszeghy
2,412 Points

updated to put the code in code blocks

1 Answer

Michael Dioszeghy
Michael Dioszeghy
2,412 Points

I have figured this out.. My code worked in repl, but was not doing what the challenge required.