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Python

Posted by Simran Bansari
Simran Bansari
4,517 Points

Oops, I forgot that I need to break out of the loop when the current item is the string "STOP". Help me add that code!

def loopy(items): for item in items: if items == "STOP": break
print(item)

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

Your code is mostly correct, you just have a small typo. In your if statement you compare the items variable (the list) to "stop" instead of the item variable (which holds the actual item).

If you fix that typo like this:

def loopy(items):
    for item in items:
        if item == "STOP":
            break
        print(item)

Then you will be able to pass the challenge.

Simran Bansari
Simran Bansari
4,517 Points

Thanks, I got it correct!!

Thomas Beaudry
Thomas Beaudry
29,084 Points

Nice work!

Jonathan Whelchel
Jonathan Whelchel
2,096 Points

why does the if statement have to come first?

andren
andren
28,558 Points

Because the challenge does not want the "STOP" item to be printed out. It wants the loop to stop the moment the "STOP" item is processed. If the if statement is placed after the print statement then it would be printed before the loop stopped.

It is not something the challenge instructions makes very clear though, so it has caused confusion among quite a few students.