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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Basel Kanaan
Basel Kanaan
4,458 Points
Posted by Basel Kanaan
Basel Kanaan
4,458 Points

may ik what is the problem here

i think im doing it right but still get an error

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

3 Answers

Pedro Cabral
Pedro Cabral
33,586 Points

Your print function is outputting one space too many. This is because when you pass more than one argument, it already adds a space as the default separator. You can fix it via one of the following ways:

print("*", continent)
print("* ", continent, sep="") # this option, overrides the default separator (space)
print("* " + continent)
Basel Kanaan
Basel Kanaan
4,458 Points
Basel Kanaan
Basel Kanaan
4,458 Points

thanks bro may you help me with this one also

for continent in continents: if continent[0] in "A": print('* ' + continent)

i need to print the countries that start with A

Pedro Cabral
Pedro Cabral
33,586 Points

That will work, optionally you could also use the str method called startswith(), you can run help(str.startswith) to see the how to use.