Struggling with python loops and indexes

Question

I am unsure if I am even on the right track with this.
I keep trying out my code in workspaces so I can get better feedback on what's wrong with my code and it keeps saying there's a syntax error near the "a" but I'm not sure that that's right; at least, I don't think that's the only thing that's wrong.
breaks.py
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for item in loopy:
        if item.index[0] == 'a'
            continue
        else:
            print(item)

Keifer Joedicker · Accepted Answer

The 'a' would need a colon but there are a few more things you should look at.
You want to loop through what ever data is provided through the items argument in the function.
to do so:
python
def loopy(items):
    for item in items:

Your referencing the first index on each particular item you loop through so you can get away with this.
python
def loop(items):
    for item in items:
        if item[0] == 'a':
            continue

Finally your code can pass looking like this:
python
def loopy(items):
    for item in items:
        if item[0] == 'a':
            continue
        print(items)

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Struggling with python loops and indexes

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