How to print a list only once with a for loop

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The exercise has me create a list of favorite pizzas, store it in fav_pizzas. Then asks to copy the list and store it in friend_pizzas. It says to then add a new pizza to fav_pizzas and friend_pizzas. To prove you have two different lists, print the message "My favorite pizzas are:, and then use a for loop to print the first list. Print the message "My friend’s favorite pizzas are:, and then use a for loop to print the second list.

My question is, how can I print out the message once for each element? If I use for pizza in pizzas, it will print the list 4 separate times. I know it’ll work if I specify each index like print(fav_pizzas[0]), print(fav_pizzas[1]), etc. Is there a shortcut for this?

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Only if you print the list (pizzas). It won’t do that if you print the element (pizza).

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Isin’t it simpler to copy and paste code (both for you and for others to help you)?

As BowlOfRed already pointed out, you wrote in Python: ‘for every item in list print list’ but you actually wanted to write: ‘for every item in list print item’.

As alternative without for-loop, one can just write:

>>> pizzas = ['margherita', 'buffalo', 'hawaiian']
>>> f'My pizzas are: {", ".join(pizzas)}'
'My pizzas are: margherita, buffalo, hawaiian'
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Thanks, I forgot you could print out the variable pizza and get the result I was looking for.

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Yes it is, sorry I’m used to just taking a screen capture.

I forgot that it was possible to print the item…silly mistake.

Thanks for the alternative!