who can i check the location of item

Question

How can i check the value of item and skip it?

breaks.py

def loopy(items):
  for item in items:
    if item == 'a' :
       continue
    print(item)

Answer 1 · 2016-01-15T21:39:40Z

January 15, 2016 9:39pm

You actually did that in your code.

if item == 'a':
    continue

That code looks at the current item from items that you're looping through. It checks to see if the item is 'a' and if it is it continues the loop without doing anything, effectively skipping it.

If you're trying to check the value of a specific character of the item you'd need to provide a slice.

if item[2] == 'a':
    continue

The above instead of checking if the entire item is equal to 'a', instead looks at the 3rd character in the item. If the 3rd character is 'a' it skips it just like in the previous example. Keep in mind when you're providing a slice or typically referring to any position in an iterable the first position or first item is at the 0 index, not 1. So when checking the 3rd character I specify a 2 instead of 3.

So for example if the item was 'apple' my code wouldn't skip it since the third letter is a 'p', but it it was 'aaapple' it would skip it since the 3rd character is an 'a'.

Answer 2 · 2016-01-15T19:20:48Z

January 15, 2016 7:20pm

Assuming that list you are looping though has that information (value or location) you can just add additional conditions in your if statement.

Answer 3 · 2016-01-16T13:16:14Z

January 16, 2016 1:16pm

Many Thanks, It work for me..

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