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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Austin Rosales
Austin Rosales
4,022 Points

Recalling one than one item from a list at a time.

Trying to print all the continents that start with A, but when i do i get TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not tuple. So then i tried to print each one at a time ex: print(places[0]) print(places[3]) print(places[5]) print(places[6]) but still says its wrong. feel like i'm missing some small detail, but not sure.

continents.py 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]
# Your code here
for places in continents:
    print("* " + places)
    print(places[0, 3, 5, 6])

3 Answers

jhon white
jhon white
20,006 Points 
for places in continents:
    if 'A' in places[0]:
         print("*" + places)

Good luck :)

Jassim Alhatem
Jassim Alhatem
20,883 Points
Jassim Alhatem
Jassim Alhatem
20,883 Points

check the first index of the string. if it starts with the letter "A" print it.

If you don't get it just reply. and I'll help you out a little more.

Austin Rosales
Austin Rosales
4,022 Points
Austin Rosales
Austin Rosales
4,022 Points

i got it now after i took away from of the [0]. What i was trying was if places[0][0] == 'A': print("* " + places)

Thought [0][0] was looking the the first thing in list followed by first letter, but found out it was just [0].

Austin Rosales
Austin Rosales
4,022 Points

Thought if i did just (Example: places[0]) it would just look at 'Asia' as a whole and not see the 'A'