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Python Python Basics (2015) Shopping List App Break

Posted by Sebastian Knell
Sebastian Knell
927 Points

What's wrong?

I think everything is OK

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

1 Answer

David Evans
David Evans
10,490 Points
David Evans
David Evans
10,490 Points

Hi Sebastian,

By the looks of it, if I understand correctly, your if statement is outside of your for loop cause of where it is indented.

Regardless, the second step of the challenge asks to break out of the loop if the current item is equal to "STOP".

You should be checking the current item BEFORE printing it.

You can try something like this.

def loopy(items):
    for thing in items:
        if thing == "STOP":
            break
        print(thing)

This will start your for loop. Check if the current item is STOP. If it is, it will break the loop and not print. If it isn't it will print the current item.

Sebastian Knell
Sebastian Knell
927 Points

Thank you!