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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Mark Nembhard
Mark Nembhard
1,387 Points
Posted by Mark Nembhard
Mark Nembhard
1,387 Points

Sorry. the screen shot was of the preceding question.I need to check for the letter A

How in the continents question do you check for the letter A

continents.py 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]
for continent in continents:

        print("*", continent)

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points

You can use an index to specify individual characters in a word.

word[0] is the first character of word

word[1] is the second character of word

and so on

So for the challenge you can check if the first character == "A" and if so print the bulleted name