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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Stephanie Tabor
Stephanie Tabor
2,944 Points
Posted by Stephanie Tabor
Stephanie Tabor
2,944 Points

How do you access characters in a string by index?

Someone help! I eventually solved this by printing a new print line for each item in the list that started with A but, I know there is an easier way.

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

2 Answers

Michael Cronk
Michael Cronk
8,970 Points

This is what i did and i think it was what you were looking for...

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

I used an 'if' statement inside the for loop to see if index of 'continent[0]' was == "A"

Kay Fuen
Kay Fuen
1,144 Points

Thanks for posting. Super new to this and trying to understand so the "if continent [0] =="A"" reads if continent starts with ([0] place) equals (== A) then print etc? So it reads each continent, first letter, and print all strings in the list?

Michael Cronk
Michael Cronk
8,970 Points
Michael Cronk
Michael Cronk
8,970 Points

Yes thats basically it, the statement ' if continent[0] == "A" ' means if the first letter of the string (index [0] - because pythons indexing starts at 0) Then print.... So yeah you seem to understand it.