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Python Python Basics (2015) Shopping List App Continue

Unable to print out every member of items

I used the index method but I can't determine what's wrong with my code.

breaks.py
def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for item in items:
      if item.index(0) = "a":
        continue
      elif print(item)

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,426 Points

On a string, the index method searches if the item is in the string. So index(0) is searching for a number. This is not allowed as you can only search for string within another string.

Instead use the "slice" syntax. Also, the compare needs double-equal sign. And "elif" should be "else"

def loopy(items):
    # Code goes here
    for item in items:
      if item[0] == "a":
        continue
      else:
        print(item)