Trouble breaking a for loop in a function.

Question

Having some trouble with the second part of the challenge task. Here's what I have so far:
def loopy(items):
    for items in items:
        print(items)
        if items == "STOP":
            break
When I ask the challenge to check my work, it says: "Didn't find the right items being printed."  I passed the first part of the challenge without any problems and I'm sure that I must be missing something obvious here, but I just can't see it. Any hints?
breaks.py
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for items in items:
        print(items)
        if items == "STOP":
            break

dojewqveaq · Accepted Answer

Hey Elizabeth! 
A couple of things here... First, try changing the name of the variable you are using to iterate over items, at the moment, you are using the same name, so it doesn't work. Basically your code is saying, iterate through items using items, wich doesn't make sense. The correct thinking would be, iterate through items using item. Something like this?
python
for item in items:
    print(item)

Also, you shouldn't use the break here. Here is what the loop is doing when you put break inside of it. It searches for the first "item" in "items", it prints "item", and then the break tells it to break the loop, basically stop it. So you are just printing one item. If you remove the break, it will iterate all items and print them.
Hope this helped.

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Elizabeth Farnsworth

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Trouble breaking a for loop in a function.

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Elizabeth Farnsworth

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