Why do we have to call the show_help function twice?

Hi Mayank Munjal,

Let me first explain the code that Mr. Love uses.

show_help()

while True:
    if new_item == "HELP":
        show_help()

This displays all the help options when the program is launched so that the user will know what commands he can use. Then the loop starts and the user can enter a '''new_item''' if that item is HELP then it will show_help() again, if it's a new item then that will be added to the list etc.

I think what you mean is this:

while True:
    show_help()

    if new_item == "HELP":
        show_help()

This isn't bad, but its kind of unnecessary it prints out show_help() every single time that the user is prompted to enter a new_item. So unless if you know that the person you are writing this program for has bad memory its not useful.

the first one is put in there because if you don't have it you go straight into the loop, so you'll see the "> " so you need to call it first, then have it a second time if the person uses the help function