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Every nth element in list

Returns every nth element in a list.

  • Use slice notation to create a new list that contains every nth element of the given list.
def every_nth(lst, nth):
  return lst[nth - 1::nth]
every_nth([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 2) # [ 2, 4, 6 ]

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