30-seconds-of-code/python/snippets/every-nth.md

title, type, tags, cover, dateModified

title	type	tags	cover	dateModified
Every nth element in list	snippet	list	cherry-trees	2020-11-02T19:27:53+02:00

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 ]