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johnathanmyers
19,994 PointsStuck on question 3.. How to return 1st 4 and last 4 numbers in iterable..
Question 3: Objective: Make a function name first_and_last_4 that accepts an iterable and returns the first 4 and last 4 items in the iterable.
# Test1 code
def first_4(iterable):
return iterable[0:4]
# Test2 code
def odds(iterable):
return iterable[1::2]
# Test3 code
def first_and_last_4(iterable)
list1 = iterable[0:4]
list2 = iterable[-4:]
return list1 + list2
1 Answer
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherWhat you have now should pass once you get the indentation correct.
johnathanmyers
19,994 Pointsjohnathanmyers
19,994 PointsNevermind... I stuck my head in the freezer for a minute and the answer came to me. :)
Actually I found it here.... (https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/introduction.html)
I didn't need to create the variables. Just added the two iterables together.. Sometimes python is so simple it's complicated! LOL