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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Raziel Martinez
Raziel Martinez
439 Points

How to access the index of a list you are trying to iterate? I dint think this was taught before

I dont have a clue how to do it im just throwing things at it at this point

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

for continent in continents:
    conti

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 Points

Hey Raziel Martinez , you don’t need to access the index of a list, per se, but rather that a str object is similar to a list in that you may access each letter as if it were an item in a list. So the first letter of a string is at index 0. This would be written as string[0].

Next, add a filter to eliminate continents not beginning with “A” (an if statement may help here).

Post back if you need more help. Good luck!!!