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Python Python Basics (2015) Shopping List App Break

Posted by Mark Baek
Mark Baek
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I'm being told the right items aren't being printed. Is this 'for' loop set up incorrectly to print things in the list?

I tried running this in the Workspace, but that didn't end up too well.

breaks.py 
def loopy(items):
    for thing in items:
        print(thing)
        if thing == 'STOP':
            break

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

The problem with your code is that it will print the "thing" even if it is "STOP" and that's not what it's looking for. It only wants you to print "thing" if it isn't stop. Take a look at the following code:

def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for thing in items:
      if thing == "STOP":
        break
      else:
        print(thing)