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Python Python Basics (2015) Shopping List App Continue

Posted by Julian Newman
Julian Newman
67 Points

Shopping-List-App pt 2

Same idea as the last one. 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".

breaks.py 
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    if item in items:
        if item == "a":
        continue
        print(item)

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,771 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,771 Points

You don't want to check if the entire current item is "a", only the "character at index 0 of the current item". To apply an index, place braces ("[]") after the name with the index number inside them.