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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Christopher Beck
Christopher Beck
Courses Plus Student 4,667 Points

Broken(?) Continents program

Ran this program in Workspaces and the output looks like it should. Not sure why this is failing....

continents.py 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]

for continent in continents:
    print("* ", continent)
Christopher Beck
Christopher Beck
Courses Plus Student 4,667 Points

Shouldn't this work also, as you get a the same bulleted list?

Nevermind.....was the extra space after the asterisk. Kinda picky...i like the extra space :)

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

Printing 2 arguments (with a comma) adds space for you, but you add your own if you concatenate (with a +).

If you print as 2 arguments and add a space after the asterisk, there's too much space between them.

jhon white
jhon white
20,006 Points
jhon white
jhon white
20,006 Points 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]

for continent in continents:
    if 'A' in continent[0]:
       print("*", continent)

Good luck :)