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ido sh
3,926 PointsI do the right thing but it say that I'm wrong
that is the task: You're on fire! Last one and it is, of course, the hardest. Make a function named reverse_evens that accepts a single iterable as an argument. Return every item in the iterable with an even index...in reverse. For example, with [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] as the input, the function would return [5, 3, 1]. You can do it!
the answer: def reverse_evens(i): return i[::-2]
def first_4(i):
return i[:4]
def first_and_last_4(i):
return i[:4] + i[-4:]
def odds(i):
return i[1::2]
def reverse_evens(i):
return i[::-2]
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james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Pointsyou are returning every other index in reverse, not necessarily every even index in reverse. if the last index in a list is odd, you are returning the odds with [::-2]. either slice the evens from the beginning, then reverse, or cut off the last index of the list if it is an odd index to use [::-2].