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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Zelemkhan Saydullaev
Zelemkhan Saydullaev
13,028 Points

Can't get this code right in this Treehouse challenge

I have seen all the other questions about this code but none of them work for me. Even when I copy past someones answer it still doesn't work.

Can you tell me whats wrong with this code and why?

continents.py 
continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']
# Your code here
for cont in continents:
    if cont(0) == "A":
    print("* " + cont)

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

Your code is quite close, there are just two issues:

  1. To access the index of a list/string you have to use square brackets [] not parenthesis (). So cont(0) should be cont[0].
  2. Python uses indentation (horizontal spacing) to group code. Code that belongs to the if statements needs to be spaced so that it is considered to be one indentation level deeper than the if statement.

If you fix those issues like this:

continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']
# Your code here
for cont in continents:
    if cont[0] == "A": # Parenthesis changed to square brackets
        print("* " + cont) # Indentation increased

Then your code will work.

Zelemkhan Saydullaev
Zelemkhan Saydullaev
13,028 Points

Thank you I tried it with [] and () and even {}. Just forgot I had to indent after :

Just when I think I got it.

Thank you.