title: Python exercise using try/except with continue
body: <p>I can't figure out why my code doesn't work properly here, it seems to exit the for loop after the <strong>except: continue</strong> line. What do I do to fix this? (the code executes but the output is always -1 no matter what list/letter combination is fed so nothing is ever being added to the sum_total variable)</p>
  <pre><code>sample_list = [
    'Black Mirror', 
    'Breaking Bad', #2
    'Stranger Things', #6
    'The Leftovers', #2
    'How I Met Your Mother' #7  4.25
  ]
  letter = 'e'
  def find_average_first_index(input_list, input_letter):
    sum_total = 0
    for i in input_list:
      try:
        sum_total += input_list.index(input_letter)
        print(sum_total)
      **except:
        continue**
          
    if sum_total == 0:
      return -1
    else:
      average_value = (sum_total / len(input_list))
      return average_value
  </code></pre>