In iterable is anything that can be iterated upon. Such as a list, str, tuple. See docs: iterable

If you just want the first for items you can use the indexing [:4], such as:

In [8]: tup = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

In [9]: tup[:4]
Out[9]: (1, 2, 3, 4)

If you want to use a function:

In [10]: def first_4(iterable):
   ....:     return iterable[:4]
   ....: 

In [11]: first_4(tup)
Out[11]: (1, 2, 3, 4)

You could also create a for-loop and inspect each item if you need operate on each item individually:

In [15]: def first_4(iterable):
    for item in range(4):
        # operate on item
        print(iterable[item])
   ....:         

In [16]: first_4(tup)
1
2
3
4

Hi Larissa,

That's describing what kind of data will be passed to your function. So, your function will receive an iterable object, which means you can put it in a loop and look at each element.

my_list = [1, 2, 3]  # this is an iterable

# function with a silly name that accepts one argument - which I am choosing to call itr, for iterable
def foo(itr):
  for element in itr:
    # lets see what's inside itr!
    print(element)

Hope this helps!

Cheers

This is what I entered, but it isn't working: first_4 = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

first_4 [:4]