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roger kuo
1,376 Pointshelp please
can someone help me with the second task?
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
for item in continents:
print("* " + item)
2 Answers

rydavim
18,798 PointsIn 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
1,376 Pointsthank you!
roger kuo
1,376 Pointsroger kuo
1,376 Pointsit still doesn't work... SyntaxError: invalid syntax
rydavim
18,798 Pointsrydavim
18,798 Pointsroger 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.