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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Ewa Topór
Ewa Topór
3,351 Points
Posted by Ewa Topór
Ewa Topór
3,351 Points

print continents that begin with the letter "A". please! help I have no idea what to do :(

I spent 3 hours with this and I don't have idea

continents.py 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]
print("continents:")
for continent in continents:
    print ("* " + continent)
Ewa Topór
Ewa Topór
3,351 Points
Ewa Topór
Ewa Topór
3,351 Points

I wrote this: for continent in continents: if continent [0] == "A": print (continent)

'Asia\nAfrica\nAntarctica\nAustralia' : Hmm...not finding the correct items in your output

1 Answer

Jeff Muday
MOD
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points
Jeff Muday
Jeff Muday
Treehouse Moderator 28,720 Points

I see you learned how to loop through a list and write conditional statements. That's a great start-- let's build on that.

By the way-- you pretty much solved the problem. The one thing to watch out for is the Challenge automatic grader only marks your solution as correct if it gets an EXACT match. So extra print statements should be removed from your code.

continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]
# your code goes here.
# print("continents:") # commented this out, since it isn't needed.
for continent in continents:
    # let's put in your conditional statement here
    if continent[0] == 'A':
        print ("* " + continent)