Shopping list, break question

Question

I'm trying to answer the questions for the shopping list app. https://teamtreehouse.com/library/python-basics/shopping-list-app/break
What am i doing wrong here?
```breaks.py
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for items:
      print(items)
    if items == "STOP":
      break
```

Justin Horner · Answer

Hello Roxanne,
You're close! You'll want to have a variable that represents the current item in the iteration. To get that, the for loop would start like this.
python
for item in items:

Then you want to first check if we need to break before printing the item, otherwise the code would print "STOP" and then break.
python
for item in items:
    if item == "STOP":

If break is called, then the following lines will not be executed, therefore, the next line needs to be the print call. You want to print the individual item, not the items list.
python
for item in items:
    if item == "STOP":
        break
    print(item)

The result is the following:
python
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for item in items:
      if item == "STOP":
        break
      print(item)

I hope this helps.

Jayden Hassan · Answer

I don't understand why my piece of code wasn't working because mine was the same but 
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Shopping list, break question

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