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Python Python Basics (2015) Shopping List App Continue

Sergey Mangov
Sergey Mangov
3,651 Points
Posted by Sergey Mangov
Sergey Mangov
3,651 Points

hi, please help me with the code

def loopy(items): # Code goes here new_item = ("> ") if new_item.index [0] = "a": continue for item in items: print (new_item) loopy(items)

breaks.py 
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    new_item = ("> ")
    if new_item.index [0] = "a":
        continue
    for item in items:
        print (new_item)
loopy(items)

4 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

:point_right: It looks like you have a few issues here:

  • the word "index" isn't used for indexing, just the brackets (new_item[0]) (index is the name of a function)
  • the test needs to be inside the loop
  • the loop variable name can be item or new_item, but it must be used consistently
  • there won't be any need to assign a variable to a literal string
  • don't call loopy yourself, just define it (the challenge calls it internally)

I'll bet you can get it now without an explicit spoiler.

Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

This is what I did:

def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for item in items:
        if item[0] == 'a':
            continue
        else:
            print(item)
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

I've learned over time that sometimes it's best to look at code to see how it is done- if they WANT to learn, they will analyze it and learn from it. When you first sat down to start learning code did you get to look at some code so you could analyze it to know how it was done? A lot of what I learned was not from guess work or racking my brain on how it was done but simply studying other people's code and figuring out why it was done the way it was done.

Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

And just to add one more thought to that: there have been times that I would spend a long time trying to solve a problem and having tried it so many ways and failed that when I finally did have the correct solution I couldn't remember even five minutes later which solution was the one that was successful.