my break command is not working for a list

Question

I am trying to add a break into the easy script, but I'm failing to see what I did wrong...

breaks.py

def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for item in items:
        print(item)
    if item == "STOP":
        break

Answer 1 · 2016-12-22T02:55:42Z

December 22, 2016 2:55am

Two problems:

The if statement to Python is outside of the for loop, you should move in the condition by adding an extra 4 spaces to the last two lines of code.
This is very confusing, but the if condition has to be before the print() line of code. If we pretend to run our code, the result will be (we are calling the function with the argument [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, "STOP"]):

1
2
3
4
5
"STOP"

However, the code challenge isn't expecting you to print "STOP" at the end.

To fix that, you must move the if condition above the print statement.

Answer:

def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for item in items:
        if item == "STOP":
            break
        print(item)

Good luck! ~Alex

Answer 2 · 2016-12-22T04:03:36Z

December 22, 2016 4:03am

thanks for the nice explanation! It works :-)!

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