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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Brian Elinsky
Brian Elinsky
4,087 Points
Posted by Brian Elinsky
Brian Elinsky
4,087 Points

What is wrong with my code?

My output looks correct. Maybe there's a bug in treehouse?

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

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

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there, Brian Elinsky ! Nope, it's not a bug in Treehouse, but your code is sooooo close that it's hard to even see the difference. In your print statement, you had the forethought to include a space to account for the space between the asterisk and the continent. However, when you use print and then separate a string with a comma and then a variable name a space will be added by default. This means that between your asterisk and your continent there is not one space... but two.

You wrote:

print("* ", continent)

But that should be:

# note the omission of the space after the asterisk
print("*", continent)

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Brian Elinsky
Brian Elinsky
4,087 Points
Brian Elinsky
Brian Elinsky
4,087 Points

Thanks! That was driving me crazy!