How does this code work? It gives me 24 as output

`

n = [2, 4, 6, 8]
res = 1
for x in n[1:3]:
  res *= x

print(res)

`

I don’t understand how this code works or what it does. I believed that it should multiply x (which is chosen randomly from 4, 6, or 8) by res, but it doesn’t do that.

I thought that the n[1:3] meant numbers 1 and 3 (4 and 8 in the data set respectively) but that multiplies to 32. I don’t know what the x is now.
Can anyone explain how it works?

>Solution :

The for x in n[1:3] uses the numbers between the 1st and the one before the 3rd one

In this case it will use the 4 (position 1) and the 6 (position before the 3rd)

In order to do from 4 to 8 you need to use n[1:4]

I think that you want to multiply only the 4 and the 8 tho, in that case that implementation of the for loop would not work for you