Even totals from a mixed order list

Python data engineering interview problem. Difficulty: beginner. Pattern: Sorting. About 10 minutes. Part of the Pro drill bank.

A payments file mixes even and odd integer totals because of a legacy cents encoding. A recon job should keep only the even totals for one ledger.

Return the even numbers from a mixed list of order totals.

Requirements

• Keep original order of the even values.
• Odd values are dropped, not rewritten.

Constraints

• totals: list of integers.
• Zero is even.
• The list may contain negatives.

Examples

Input: even_totals([1, 2, 3, 4]) Output: [2, 4] This input follows the stated rules and produces this output.

Topics: lakebench, python, comprehensions.

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