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daostryver
1,967 Pointscreate a function named first_4 that returns the first four items from whatever iterable is given to it.
what am i doing wrong?
def first_4():
return first_4[:5]
3 Answers
Øyvind Andreassen
16,840 PointsHey daostryver,
You're sort of on the solution. Though your function isn't taking any input, and doesn't have any code inside it.
def first_4(string):
return string[:4]
Also, remember that iterables starts at 0, so your code would return the first five letters.
daostryver
1,967 Pointsdef first_4(iterable):
return iterable[:4]
okay its still not accepting it
daostryver
1,967 Pointsnvm i forgot to indent