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Python

Posted by Tomer Inbar
Tomer Inbar
2,248 Points

Why am I getting "Didn't find the right items being printed." ?

For the https://teamtreehouse.com/library/python-basics/shopping-list-app/continue challenge, I am getting the error above.

Task instructions: Loop through every item in items. If the current item's index 0 is the letter "a", continue to the next one. Otherwise, print out every member of items.

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

Any idea?

1 Answer

Haider Ali
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Haider Ali
Python Development Techdegree Graduate 24,728 Points

Hi, I have taken a look at your code and seen that you have made a simple error. On the last line, you have written print(items) instead of print(item). The code that you have written will print the whole list of items out if the current item's index 0 is not 'a'. However, the challenge asks you just to print out the current item, not the whole list.

This is what your code should look like:

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

Try and make your loop counter's name slightly different to the name of what you are looping through. It makes it easier to avoid mistakes like this. :)

Tomer Inbar
Tomer Inbar
2,248 Points

Hi! Thanks for the review and quick response. Although, I printed "items" and not "item" on purpose as the instructions for this code challenge are:

"... Otherwise, print out every member of items." So, my take on this was that I was asked to print ALL items in the list...