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Python Python Basics (2015) Shopping List App Continue

Ramon Berke
Ramon Berke
637 Points
Posted by Ramon Berke
Ramon Berke
637 Points

I am stuck in this task can somebody tell me my mistake?

The task says "My loopy function needs to skip an item this time, though.Loop through each item in items again. If the character at index 0 of the current item is the letter "a", continue to the next one. Otherwise, print out the current member. Example: ["abc", "xyz"] will just print "xyz".". I wrote this but the bummer says "name 'item' is not defined.".Can somebody tell me my mistake? (and can you send the code because its easier for me to understand.)

breaks.py 
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    while True:
        print(item)

        if item.index(0) == 'a':
            continue
        else:
            print(item)

1 Answer

Reyam Marcos
PLUS
Reyam Marcos
Courses Plus Student 10,367 Points
Reyam Marcos
Reyam Marcos
Courses Plus Student 10,367 Points

you dont need a while loop for this one, check this one

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

hope it helps

Ramon Berke
Ramon Berke
637 Points
Ramon Berke
Ramon Berke
637 Points

Thank you so much. It workedd.