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Dimitar Tsvetkov
6,806 PointsMake a function named first_4 that accepts an iterable as an argument and returns the first 4 items in the iterable.
Please explain why is my code not working
first_4 = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
frist_4[:4]
2 Answers
Alvin McNair
3,398 PointsSo as far as I can tell you need to use def to create a function.
If you wanted a function to return every third item it would look like this
def everyThird(iter):
return iter[::3]
Dimitar Tsvetkov
6,806 PointsThank you Alvin. I can't believe I am so stupid. No sleep leads to lack of reading comprehension :D