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Python

Posted by Dean Miaris
Dean Miaris
Courses Plus Student 975 Points

Challenge question 'continue' is not working for me 

def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for item in items:
        if items.index(item) == 0:
            continue
        print(item)

[MOD: added ```python markdown formatting -cf]

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 Points

What behavior are you expecting? When I run your code in the REPL, the continue skips printing the first element:

>>> def loopy(items):
...     # Code goes here
...     for item in items:
...         if items.index(item) == 0:
...             continue
...         print(item)
... 
>>> loopy(list(range(10)))
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
>>> list(range(10))
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]