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Python Python Collections (2016, retired 2019) Slices Slice Functions

Lihua Yao
Lihua Yao
4,218 Points
Posted by Lihua Yao
Lihua Yao
4,218 Points

Make a function that accepts a single iterable as an argument. Return every item in the iterable with an even index in

why below way is not correct?

numbers[::-2]

numbers
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]

numbers[::-2] [19, 17, 15, 13, 11, 9, 7, 5, 3, 1]

1 Answer

Lihua Yao
Lihua Yao
4,218 Points
Lihua Yao
Lihua Yao
4,218 Points

I tested in python shell, I got the correct result.