30-seconds-of-code/snippets/every_nth.md

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every_nth	list,beginner

Returns every nth element in a list.

• Use [nth-1::nth] 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 ]