Skip one iteration and adding conditions Python (Basic Question) - arrays

Question

I have been reading a text file a object and create a list with the contents.
textfile:
Activity Time Location
Football 8-9 Pitch
Basketball 9-10 Gym
Lunch 11-12 Home
Read 13-14 Library
Swim 14-15 Pool
openTime = 6
closeTime = 15
come = int(input('When do you want to come?'))
leave = int(input('When do you want to leave?'))
# endtime_of_activity and startTimeofactivity is equal to the startingtime
# of each activity and the end time of each activity in the textfile
# (taken from a list that I have been splitting).
for i in range(len(my_list)):
item = my_list[i]
if (i == 1):
continue
if closeTime <= come <= endtime_of_activity and startTimeofactivity < leave <= closeTime:
print(item.activities)
My question: As you can read in the textfile there are some activities appering on different times. For example football between 8 and 9. With the code I want to be able to skip the second element (basketball) as the code is doing, however, I want the if statement under "continue" to work. If i type that im coming 8 and leaving at 12 I want all the activities (excluding the second one) to show. This works for me when I'm doing a regular for-loop without skiping the second activity, like when im just writing: for i in my_list, then adding on the condition, but when Im doing the code above it shows me all the activites (except basketball) independeltly of when I chose to come and leave. What have I missed? How could I write the code better?

Answer 1

If you want to skip a certain activity, simply test if the activitiy to be printed is the same and skip it if it is:
with open("f.txt","w") as f:
f.write(("Activity Time Location\nFootball 8-9 "
"Pitch\nBasketball 9-10 Gym\nLunch 11-12"
" Home\nRead 13-14 Library\nSwim 14-15"))
data = []
with open("f.txt") as f:
for line in f:
act, time, what = (line.strip().split(" ") + ["","",""])[:3]
if data:
try:
time=list(map(int, time.split("-")))
except ValueError:
continue # invalid time: skip row
data.append([act,time,what])
header,*data = data
openTime = 6
closeTime = 15
come = 9
leave = 12
skip=set(["Basketball"])
fmt = "{:<15}"*len(header)
print(fmt.format(*header))
for act,(start,stop),what in data:
if act in skip:
continue
if start >= come and stop <= leave and openTime <= come and closeTime >= leave:
print(fmt.format(act, f"{start}-{stop}", what))
Output:
Activity Time Location
Football 8-9 Pitch
Lunch 11-12 Home