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Python

Posted by Elisa Soncin
Elisa Soncin
1,358 Points

Problem with lists exercise in Python. Although I get the desired output, I still have an error message

So, this is the challenge:

Print a bulleted list of each continent from the continents list. Output should look similar to:

  • Asia
  • South America

continents = [
'Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia', ]

Here my code with output:

for continent in continents: print("*" + continent)

*Asia *South America *North America *Africa *Europe *Antarctica *Australia

And the error:

Ran 1 test in 0.000s

OK

.F

FAIL: test_output (main.TestIterationExecution)

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 49, in test_output AssertionError: '* Asia' not found in '*Asia\n*South America\n*North America\n*Africa\n*Europe\n*Antarctica\n*Australia' : Hmm...not finding the correct items in your output

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points

It looks like it is expecting a space between the asterisk and the name.

    print("*" + continent)    # so instead of this
    print("* " + continent)   # try this
    print("*", continent)     # or this