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Evan N
Evan N
3,244 Points
Posted by Evan N
Evan N
3,244 Points

I don't fully understand why my program isn't actually printing the values up until "a" within my console

My code passes but I am not seeing the items print up until "a"

So, my understanding is that this program loops through the items until "a" and continues through the loop without stopping. However, even if I change the list to not include "a" the program will still not print to the console.

def loopy(items):

    for item in items:
        if item[0] == "a" :
            continue
        else:
            print(item)
items = ["z", "c", "a", "d"]
breaks.py 
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

The def keyword defines a function, but it does not run any of the code within it. In order to run the function you have to call it and pass it a list to work on.

Here is an example:

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

# Call loopy with list as argument
loopy(["z", "c", "a", "d"])

That will result in:

z
c
d

Being printed out.