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Noah Harness
Noah Harness
1,383 Points
Posted by Noah Harness
Noah Harness
1,383 Points

loop with index

I need to continue through a loop if the 0 index of 'item' is ''a'', otherwise i need to print the item.

HELP PLEASE I think I am really close

breaks.py 
def loopy(items):
    for item in items:
        if item.index(0) = "a":
            continue;
        else:
            print(item)

1 Answer

Umesh Ravji
Umesh Ravji
42,362 Points
Umesh Ravji
Umesh Ravji
42,362 Points

Hi Noah, you are really close, just small issues with your code.

Comparisons are done with double equals (==), not using single equals (=), which are used when assigning values to variables.

Checking if the first character is an a can be done by checking the character at the first index using the code below:

item[0] == 'a'

Giving you a result of:

def loopy(items):
    for item in items:
        if item[0] == "a":
            continue;
        else:
            print(item)