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Emily Strobl
5,429 Pointshelp me part 3
i tried everything to indext just the continents that begin with A but im still getting all of the continents
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
print ('continents'[0])
print ('continents:')
for continent in continents:
print('* ' + continent)
1 Answer
Cameron S
20,537 PointsYou need to use the slice to get the first letter of each list item within a if statement to make sure the returned value is equal to 'A'. That if statements should be inside the for loop you already have.
For example:
# list of continents
>>> continents = [
... 'Asia',
... 'South America',
... 'North America',
... 'Africa',
... 'Europe',
... 'Antarctica',
... 'Australia',
... ]
>>> for continent in continents:
# if the first index (first letter) of each item within
# the list is equal to "A"
... if continent[0] == "A":
... print(continent)
...
Asia
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
>>>
Also note a bug within your code:
print('continents'[0])
# this will return the first index of the string 'continents not the list.
# so you would get back the letter 'c' instead of a continent from the list