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I'm having a lot of trouble trying to figure this exercise out - I would appreciate some assistance - Here is my code thus far:

def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for i in items:
        if i(0) == 'a':
        continue
    print(i)

AND

Here is the exercise I'm working on:

Same idea as the last one. My loopy function needs to skip an item this time, though. Loop through each item in items again. If the character at index 0 of the current item is the letter "a", continue to the next one. Otherwise, print out the current member. Example: ["abc", "xyz"] will just print "xyz".

I tried indenting continue, and I keep getting this message: "Str object is not callable" - So, I erase the indent, and that still doesn't work - I've also tried several other approaches, but I just don't know what I'm missing...

Answer 1 · 2017-02-04T01:43:02Z

February 4, 2017 1:43am

You're close, but I see a few issues:

indexing is done with brackets [], not parentheses ()
anything inside a loop must be indented further than the for statement itself
any conditionally-executed statements must be indented further than the if statement itself

Answer 2 · 2017-02-05T02:42:48Z

February 5, 2017 2:42am

Thank you for your help everyone - It was much appreciated... P :)

Answer 3 · 2017-02-04T01:49:08Z

February 4, 2017 1:49am

Your for loop has to be for item in items, not i in items.

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Steven Parker

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You're close, but I see a few issues:

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