Skipping every other element after the first

Question

I have the general idea of how to do this in Java, but I am learning Python and not sure how to do it.

I need to implement a function that returns a list containing

Answer 1

def skip_elements(elements):
    # code goes here
    new_list=[]
    for index,alpha in enumerate(elements):
        if index%2==0:
            new_list.append(alpha)
    return new_list


print(skip_elements(["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g"]))  
print(skip_elements(['Orange', 'Pineapple', 'Strawberry', 'Kiwi', 'Peach']))