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For our first problem, we would like to “rotate” a list, or move elements forward in a list by a number of spaces, k.

Elements at the greatest index will “wrap around” to the beginning of the list.

list = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f']
rotate(list, 0)
# ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f']
rotate(list, 1)
# ['f', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
rotate(list, 3)
# ['d', 'e', 'f', 'a', 'b', 'c']

Clarifying Questions:

  • Are there constraints on time or space efficiency?
    • Nope! Just solve the problem.
  • Should I account for negative inputs?
    • The rotation input will always be positive.
  • What if the rotation is greater than the list length?
    • Continue wrapping!
    • The “rotated” list would be the same as the original when k is equal to the length.

Instructions

1.

Write a function rotate(), with the parameters my_list and num_rotations.

rotate() should return the input list rotated num_rotations forward.

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