I do not understand this question:

HINT: Reme

Question

I'd like you to now only print continents that begin with the letter "A".
HINT: Remember that you can access characters in a string by index
```continents.py
continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']
Your code here
if A in continent:
for continent in continents:
    if A in continent:
        print ("* " + continent)
```

Kudakwashe Moyo · Answer

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

Tonye Jack · Answer

You can use python str.startswith to find letters from the beginning of the string.
```python
continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']
for continent in continents:
    if continent.startswith('A'):
        print("* " + continent)
```

angel moreta · Answer

for task number two: 
for continent in continents:
    if 'A' in continent[0]:         # you can also do this: 'A' == continent[0] 
        print ("* " + continent)
**** remember the challenge says that you can access characters in a string by index****

angel moreta · Answer

you are overthinking the challenge, delete both if statements, then indent the print function inside the loop.

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Tonye Jack

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Kudakwashe Moyo

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