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Python Python Collections (Retired) Slices Slice Functions

Maksym Biednov
Maksym Biednov
13,459 Points

Problem with challenge odds function

The task is "Make a function named odds that accepts an iterable as an argument and returns the items with an odd index in the iterable." It should be very simple, but somehow It doesn't work for me.

my code is

def odds (li):
  li = list(range(56))
  return li[1::2]

(sorry for editing. I've tried '''python ''', but it still looks the same)

I got Bummer: "odds() didn't return the right output. Got [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55], expected kaoa"

What's wrong with it? What is "kaoa"? As for me, odds return odds.

Joy Kesten
Joy Kesten
Treehouse Guest Teacher

I hope you don't mind, I fixed your code. Chalker's video on the side of the forum shows you how for future reference :)

keep up the good work!

1 Answer

Mikael Enarsson
Mikael Enarsson
7,056 Points

Remove li = list(range(56)) ^^