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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

roger kuo
roger kuo
1,376 Points
Posted by roger kuo
roger kuo
1,376 Points

help please

can someone help me with the second task?

continents.py 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]
for item in continents:
    print("* " + item)

2 Answers

rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points
rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points

In the block you've already written, you'll want to add a condition statement before printing the continent.

continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]
for item in continents:
    # if the continent starts with an 'A':
        print("* " + item)

There is a good reference on if statements in Python on W3Schools. Remember that you can use bracket notation to get a character at a specific index - thing[3].

Hopefully that helps, but let me know if you're still having trouble and we can walk through a solution. Happy coding!

roger kuo
roger kuo
1,376 Points
roger kuo
roger kuo
1,376 Points

it still doesn't work... SyntaxError: invalid syntax

rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points
rydavim
rydavim
18,814 Points

roger kuo - Sorry I missed your second reply. Can you post your new code if you're still having trouble? It's best to take a look that way, so we can identify why you might be getting that error.