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Python Python Basics (2015) Shopping List App Continue

Grace Baecher
Grace Baecher
578 Points
Posted by Grace Baecher
Grace Baecher
578 Points

Loop through each item in items again. If the character at index 0 of the current item is the letter "a", continue to th

Loop through each item in items again. If the character at index 0 of the current item is the letter "a", continue to the next one.

breaks.py 
def loopy(items):
    if item in items:
        if item == ["a"]:
            continue
            print(item)
       # Code goes here

1 Answer

Valeshan Naidoo
Valeshan Naidoo
27,008 Points
Valeshan Naidoo
Valeshan Naidoo
27,008 Points 
def loopy(items):
    if item in items:          <-- use a for loop since we are looping through each of the item in the items list
        if item == ["a"]:      <-- item should have the index 0, so item[0], we are searching for the first letter of each item,
           continue                    remove the [] around "a" since it's not part of anything, it's just a string.
           print(item)          <-- this shouldn't be indented in the if statement, you can put that in an else statement.

so in the end it should look like this:

def loopy(items):
    for item in items:
       if item[0] == "a":
           continue
       else:
           print(item)
Valeshan Naidoo
Valeshan Naidoo
27,008 Points
Valeshan Naidoo
Valeshan Naidoo
27,008 Points

you can also just forgo the "else", and just do 

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