On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 09:09 am, devers.meetthebadger.ja...@gmail.com wrote: > http://imgur.com/a/rfGhK#iVLQKSW
Why on earth are you posting a screen shot? Do you edit your code with Photoshop? As soon as you post an unnecessary screenshot, you cut the number of people willing and able to help you in half: - anyone who is blind or visually impaired and reading this with a screen reader cannot help you, even if they wanted to; - anyone reading this post somewhere where access to imgur is blocked (say, from work); - anyone who takes one look at the URL and says "F--k it, if they can't be bothered to copy and paste text, I can't be bothered to follow the link". We're volunteers. We're not paid to solve your problem, so if you make it hard for us, we simply won't bother. > How do I code a function that returns a list of the first n elements of > the sequence defined in the link? I have no idea!!!!! I have no idea either, because I cannot see the image. I'll leave you to guess why I can't. But the usual way to return a list of the first n elements of a sequence is with slicing: first_bunch = sequence[:n] # a slice from index 0 to just before index n If sequence is a list, then the slice sequence[:n] will also be a list. Otherwise you may want to convert it to a list: first_bunch = list(sequence[:n]) How does slicing work? You can think of it as a faster, more efficient way of something like this: def cut_slice(sequence, start=0, end=None): if end is None: end = len(sequence) result = [] for i in range(start, end): value = sequence[i] result.append(value) return result P.S. any time you think you want a while loop, 90% of the time you don't. While-loops have their uses, but they're unusual. Whenever you know ahead of time how many loops will be done, use a for-loop. While-loops are only for those unusual cases where you don't know how many times you need to loop. Use a while-loop for: - loop *until* something happens; - loop *while* something happens; Use a for-loop for: - loop over each element of a sequence; - loop a fixed number of times. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list