Challenge 2 of 2 Shopping List App
Error

Question

def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    currentitem = input("> ")
    for item in items:
        if currentitem == "STOP":
            break
    print(item)
```breaks.py
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    currentitem = input("> ")
    for item in items:
        if currentitem == "STOP":
            break
    print(item)        
```

Jason Anders · Accepted Answer

Hey there,
You seemed to go a bit off track for the second part of the Challenge. You had it all going okay for the first one... Why did you change the name of variables and add a current_item variable. None of this was asked for in the second task. You do have all the 'elements' needed for the second task, but...
Your code from the first task:
python
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for item in items:    
        print(item)

Just needs 2 lines added inside of the for loop. 
So, to fix your code up... first you need to delete the current_item = input("> "). This was not asked for by the challenge's instructions. The instructions are always very specific and need to be followed exactly, so I'm not sure why this was added?
Next, you need to change the variable names back to what you had for the first task. There was no need to change them, so I'm a bit confused as to why you did? You're looping over items and storing the value of each iteration in the temporary variable item. This is the only variable that you need to (and can) check against for the word "STOP" in the if statement. 
Finally, you need to put the print method back inside of the for loop. Python is very indent dependent and by removing the indent, you moved it outside of the loop, so now the iterations through the loop are not being printed out any longer.
So, once all that is done, you end up with 
python
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for item in items:
        if item == "STOP":
            break
        print(item)

I hope this helps. :)
Keep Coding! :dizzy:

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Challenge 2 of 2 Shopping List App Error

1 Answer

Jason Anders

Jason Anders