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gooshtat
1,455 PointsSlices challenge not completing
I am at the last step of the challenge where I am supposed to reverse messy_list and show every third item. I tried this a number of times outside the browser and works as required by the challenge. So believe the code should be fine. Nevertheless the 3rd step keeps failing. Not sure whether there is a bug or I am missing something extremely obvious. Many thanks.
messy_list = [5, 2, 1, 3, 4, 7, 8,3, 9, -1]
clean_list = messy_list [:]
clean_list.sort()
silly_list = messy_list[::-3]
2 Answers
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsYou code works perfectly, I'm not sure what the error you encountered? could you clarify?
gooshtat
1,455 PointsWow, I would have never spotted that. Now it worked but I had to restart the challenge. Thank you so much!
gooshtat
1,455 Pointsgooshtat
1,455 PointsAfter I run the 3rd step (as written above) it tells me the 2nd step is no longer passing and asks me to recheck it. Once I do that it goes again to the 3rd step, which fails again. So it is sort of stuck looping between the 2nd and the 3d step.
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsWilliam Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Pointslooks like somehow you made change to the line #1 provided by code challenge. (don't do that)
As you can see, changing messy_list value will effect the output of your program, and thereby cause the grader check to fail.