Even totals from a mixed order list

Python data engineering interview problem. Difficulty: beginner. Pattern: Sorting. About 10 minutes. Free to practice.

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.

An order list mixes totals, and finance only wants the even ones. Return a new list with only the even numbers, in the same order as the input. Write even_totals(totals). From [1, 2, 3, 4], the even totals are [2, 4]. An empty list gives []. The starter file already has the function name and its print lines. Keep them and fill in the body.

Requirements

• Keep only values that are divisible by 2.
• Keep the original order.
• Return [] for an empty list.

Constraints

• totals is a list of whole numbers.
• Zero is even.

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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