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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

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I can't find a way to print continents which starts with "A".

Can anyone find the bug in the code?

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

3 Answers

Steven Tagawa
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Steven Tagawa
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This one is a little misleading. Despite what it says about adding your code to the code from the previous task, you're actually not supposed to here. You need to take out the line that prints the names of all the continents with bullets, and just leave the part that prints the continents starting with "A".

You need to add an indentation to the last line, so that you get your code inside the if-statements body.

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Courses Plus Student 18,949 Points

I solved the problem by putting if statement one line above and deleting the last print statement. The thing is that the answer still needs to be with those dots in front of every single continent starting with letter "A". Anyways, thank you very much for good insights.