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Md Akibe Hashan
2,408 PointsMake a function named reverse_evens that accepts a single iterable as an argument. Return every item in the iterable wit
can anyony shw me the real way to compleat my code
def first_4(iterable):
return iterable[:4]
def first_and_last_4(iterable):
first=iterable[:4]
last=iterable[-4:]
result=first+last
return result
def odds(iterable):
reverse_list = iterable[1::2]
return reverse_list
def reverse_evens(reverse):
return reverse[-1::-2]
1 Answer

Steven Parker
216,136 PointsThere's two basic strategies for this solution:
- compute the "start" position based on the length (or even/odd-ness) of the list
- use one slice to extract the even indexes, then a second one to reverse the list
Either method will work when correctly implemented, but the 2nd one might be easier.