Understanding - Beginner, exercise 9

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Consider the following Python function:

def f(name):
    result = set()
    for c in get_odd_numbers(name):
        result.add(name[c])
    return result

The ancillary function get_odd_numbers takes in input a string and returns a list of numbers referring to the odd positions of the characters in the input string. What is the result of the execution of f("Santa Claus")?

Solution

{'l', 'a', ' ', 't', 'u'}

Additional material

The runnable Python file is available online. You can run it executing the command python exercise_9.py in a shell.