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Hi Kishore,

There was nothing wrong with the continue statement and I think that's what the challenge instructions were leading you to do. Nathan's alternate solution is fine to.

You did have 2 issues with your original code though.

First, you assigned an empty list to items with items = [] This means you've lost whatever items were passed into your function by the code challenge tester. So now your for loop doesn't execute even one time because there's nothing in items.

Second, in your for loop you are storing each item in the variable i as you loop over items. So you want to check index 0 of the current item which is i in your case not index 0 of the items list that was passed in.

Use if i[0] == 'a': instead.

I imagine there are quite a few ways to do this, but here is what I did.

I figured "Well, I want to focus on the printing." So here is what it looks like.

def loopy(items):          # Start my loop over the list
    for item in items:     # Grab each item out of the list
      if item[0] != "a":   # If the item does NOT start with the letter a
        print(item)        # Print it out

No need for the continue then because if it will loop back all by itself. In this way the items starting with the letter a will not be printed, and everything else will be. ;)

Finished code for challenge.

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

with the above code still am getting the same error. is there anything wrong using continue as I did in my code

Thanks Nathan. It's working...