SyntaxError: 'return' outside function

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Are you sure your indentation is correct? We cannot check it, because your code is not formatted, but your return statement needs to be indented by exactly one level, in order for it to be properly situated in the fizz_count function, without its being part of the for loop or the if block.

Here is the same code that you posted, but with correct indentation visible, so you can compare it to what you submitted to Codecademy’s Python interpreter:

def fizz_count(x):
    count = 0
    for item in x:
        if item == 'fizz':
            count = count + 1
    return count

Each portion of the code is indented by one level to the right, with respect to its controlling header.