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

title, tags, firstSeen, lastUpdated

title	tags	firstSeen	lastUpdated
Remove list elements	list,beginner	2020-03-16T19:52:44+02:00	2020-09-15T16:13:06+03:00

Returns a list with n elements removed from the beginning.

• Use slice notation to create a slice of the list with n elements taken from the beginning.

def take(itr, n = 1):
  return itr[:n]

take([1, 2, 3], 5) # [1, 2, 3]
take([1, 2, 3], 0) # []