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Breaking out of a for loop

You can use loops to perform operations which change depending on the data. For this exercise, you given a list of purchase transactions in the variable buys. You need to calculate the final balance of your client's account after the purchases have been made, but you do not want the account to have a negative balance. The initial account balance is provided in the variable balance.

This exercise is part of the course

Intermediate Python for Finance

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Loop through buys
____ buy ____ buys:
    print('Buying ' + buy['symbol'])
    new_balance = ____ - buy['total_cost']
    balance = new_balance

print(balance)
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