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Python Python Basics (2015) Shopping List App Break

Posted by olusola ojo
olusola ojo
Courses Plus Student 498 Points

challenge task

"I need you to help me finish my loopy function. Inside of the function, I need a for loop that prints each thing in items. Reminder: Check your syntax and indenting!"

breaks.py 
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    items = ['i','t','e','m','s']
    for each thing in items:
        print (items)

1 Answer

Christof Baumgartner
Christof Baumgartner
20,864 Points
Christof Baumgartner
Christof Baumgartner
20,864 Points

Hi Olusola,

three small issues with the code:

  1. You don't need to create the items-array, this is passed over as a parameter to the function
  2. The for-each-loop in python doesn't need a this each-word
  3. You need to print out the variable that you created in the for loop to hold the the item of this iteration. This would be thing in your example. When you print out items, you would just print out all members of this array every time the loop repeats

After this adjustments the code looks like this:

def loopy(items):
    for thing in items:
        print (thing)