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gee cee
1,968 PointsI think this problem is worded incorrectly for the example, it says every even number but the example is using odds
Question is phrased like so:
"Make a function named reverse_evens that accepts a single iterable as an argument. Return every item in the iterable with an even index...in reverse.
For example, with [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] as the input, the function would return [5, 3, 1]."
This is confusing because the example is using odd numbers for the expected output.
def first_4(input_list):
return input_list[:4]
def first_and_last_4(input_list):
return input_list[:4] + input_list[-4:]
def odds(input_list):
return input_list[1::2]
def reverse_evens(input_list):
1 Answer
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! The question says the even index and then it gives an example. All the odd numbers are at even indexes. The element at the index of 0 is 1, the element at index of 2 is 3, and the element at index 4 is 5. But we really could have used any example. If I used this as the example input:
["hi", "there", "gee", "cee"]
I would expect to get back:
["gee", "hi"]
This is because "hi" and "gee" are at even indexes (0 and 2) respectively.
Hope that helps!
