i would suggest you take a deep look for logical errors... it happened to me also ... errors are most likely to be found in expressions where your variable names are different than the code youre comparing
... otherwise ...
use chat gpt ... it may suggest some minor changes that you may have missed

cooool superb;;;;

I really admire the way you approach problem

perfect analogy

the problem was enough to confuse me though

keep solving more kata and reading up on python's inbuilt methods and it will come quicker than you think.

I personally find https://realpython.com/ absoluely great to learn from. It's clear, concise and runs like a tutorial/class with pertinent exmaples of usage.

I was trying to do exactly this for ages but I was using map. Thank you.

code can be compressed upto a limit that my mind denies as a beginner

dealing with a specific input datatype- integers only

python is surprisingly comprehensible