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Python Python Basics (2015) Shopping List App Continue

Posted by Mehmet Colakoglu
Mehmet Colakoglu
1,297 Points

breaks.py

I am having trouble understanding this

breaks.py 
def loopy(items):
    for i in items:
        items.remove[0]
        if a in items[0]:
            continue
        print(i)

1 Answer

james south
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james south
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james south
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james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Points

it doesn't ask you to remove anything, only to skip some items. you are looping through items and your loop variable is i. each pass through the loop, i is another item in items. you need to see if the first character of i is an a or not. you can use slice notation. myItem[2] for example would be the 3rd letter/element in myItem, because strings/collections are 0-indexed. if the first letter is a, skip it, else, print the item.