Hi there

I can't solve this Challenge

Question

this is my code
if "a" in items[0]:
      del items[0]
      for item in items:
         print(items)
don't know why ti is not working ?
```breaks.py
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    if "a" in items[0]:
      del items[0]
      for item in items:
         print(items)
```

Katie Wood · Answer

Hello there - 
The wording on this one is a little bit tricky - currently, your code will check whether the first item in "items" has an "a" in it - instead, the challenge is asking you to loop through the whole "items" list and skip any value that has "a" as the first letter, meaning index 0 of that specific item.
It would look similar to what you have, so let's go through it in a few steps.  First, we want everything to be inside the 'for' loop, so I'm going to take what you have and remove everything outside the loop - we'll add the 'a' part back in a second.
python
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for item in items:
        print(item)

So now we have a loop that will print each item in the list.  Now we just need it to skip the item if 'a' is the first letter, so we need a conditional:
python
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for item in items:
        if(item[0] == 'a'):
            continue
        else:
            print(item)

So, for each item, it will check if the first letter is 'a', and skip it if so.  If not, it will print that item. 
Hope this helps!

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Shady Habashy

Shady Habashy

Hi there I can't solve this Challenge

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Katie Wood

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