Extract Every nth Element from a List in Python

Introduction

In Python, we can access elements in a list using their index. Sometimes we may want to extract every nth element from a list. In this challenge, you are tasked with writing a function that takes a list and an integer nth as arguments and returns a new list containing every nth element of the original list.

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Every nth element in list

Write a function every_nth(lst, nth) that takes a list lst and an integer nth as arguments and returns a new list containing every nth element of the original list.

def every_nth(lst, nth):
  return lst[nth - 1::nth]

every_nth([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 2) ## [ 2, 4, 6 ]

Summary

In this challenge, you learned how to extract every nth element from a list in Python. You can achieve this by using slice notation to create a new list that contains every nth element of the given list.

Every nth element in list

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Every nth element in list

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