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Kirk Watts
2,202 PointsReturns items with an odd index?
I'm not too clear where I'm going wrong here - "Bummer!" doesn't really help me debug :). Thoughts? The Challenge says "Make a function named odds that accepts an iterable as an argument and returns the items with an odd index in the itterable."
def first_4(hello):
return hello[0:4]
def odds(kirk):
for item in kirk:
if (item.index() % 2) != 0:
return item
else:
break
2 Answers
Haider Ali
Python Development Techdegree Graduate 24,728 PointsHi Kirk, I see that you are having problems with Task 2 of the challenge. Here is what you should have done:
def odds(an_iterable):
return an_iterable[1::2]
What this function does is start at the item at index 1 and goes up indexes in steps of 2. This will return all items at odd indexes. E.g. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9...
Kirk Watts
2,202 PointsThanks Haider, makes sense that the challenge would want for me to use the stuff just taught to me.