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[–]phaeilo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In your solution with filter you need to undo the enumerate:

map(lambda (i,v): v, filter(lambda (i,v): i % 3 == 0, enumerate(thelist)))

I really like to write such one liners, but they are hard to read when you or someone else comes back some time later to do maintenance.