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saro lin
Courses Plus Student 531 PointsSilicing challenge !!
"Make a function name first_and_last_4 that accepts an iterable and returns the first 4 and last 4 items in the iterable." This is the 3rd task and I am getting error in my code..please help.. def first_4(x): return x[:4]
def odds(y): return y[1::2]
def first_and_last_4(z): returns first_4(x)+z[-4]
2 Answers
Anish Walawalkar
8,534 PointsThis should fix your problem:
def first_and_last_4(z):
return first_4(x) + z[-4:]
Sue Upton
3,723 PointsA slice of a list returns a list so they can be added together like any other list.
def first_and_last(z): return z[0:4] + z[-4:]
Jordan Bester
4,752 PointsJordan Bester
4,752 Pointsmake sure you add the z in that first_4