for loop

Question

Hi all,
Can you please help with my error below:
def loopy(items):
    # for item in items
    for item in items:
        if item("items") == "stop":
            break
        else:
            print(item)
```breaks.py
def loopy(items):
    # for item in items
    for item in items:
        if item("items") == "stop":
            break
        else:
            print(item)
```

AJ Salmon · Accepted Answer

Hi David! There are a couple problems here, the first one being your syntax in your 'if'. You don't need to have ("items") after the word item, because you already clarified that your for loop is being performed on the argument 'items'. Also, loop variables don't work like that, for the same reason. The second issue is that the challenge asks for you to break the loop when the string "STOP" is passed to the function, and you had it break for the string "stop". While they're the same word, they are different strings, due to the case of the letters. It should look something like this:
python
def loopy(items):
    for item in items:
        if item == "STOP":
            break
        else:
            print(item)

Hope this helps!

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Steven Parker

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FYI: The "else" isn't needed because of the "break" (but it doesn't hurt).

AJ Salmon

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