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Ethan Koren
6,277 Pointsbreaks.py
can someone please help me out with this? i simply dont get it
def loopy(items):
# Code goes here
1 Answer

dojewqveaq
11,393 PointsHey Ethan,
the task is asking you to print every item in the items list, but skip the ones that start with the letter 'a'. So, you have to iterate through items, and if a certain condition is met, do something. Ok, so that's an if inside a for loop, something like this:
def loopy(items):
# Code goes here
for item in items: # this for loop will iterate through every 'item' in 'items'
if item[0] != "a": # if item DOESN'T start with the letter 'a' (!= means NOT, so if item's first letter isn't 'a', do
#something). It will print the current item.
print(item) # print 'item'
else:
continue # continue looping without doing anything if it starts with 'a'
Yushuai Cai
564 PointsYushuai Cai
564 PointsHi Eric,
I think Ethan was asking https://teamtreehouse.com/library/python-basics/shopping-list-app/break Challenge Task 2 of 2