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Python Python Basics (2015) Shopping List App Continue

Posted by John Wetherbee
John Wetherbee
1,467 Points

Loopy function solution

Thank you in advance for your help

breaks.py 
def loopy(items):
    items = []
    while True:
        item = input(>" ")
        if item[0] == "a":
            continue
        else:
            print(item)

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

You have the right idea. In most challenges going forward you will not need use the input() function to get data. The challenge checker will execute the code by calling the function with various values for items.

Change the while... input code to a for loop by replacing:

# replace this:
    items = []
    while True:
        item = input(>" ")

# with this:
    for item in items: