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Tsering Choedhen
1,051 PointsAny suggestions how to print continents that begin with letter "A" please?
I am trying to access the string in a list. But i can't think of any. Happy to hear your help.
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
# Your code here
for continent in continents:
print("* " + continent)
while continents[0][0]
2 Answers
boi
14,242 PointsHow about you try to use an if condition and not while. I want you to figure this out by yourself so DON'T look at the direct solution below BEFORE reading the indirect solution.
INDIRECT SOLUTION: suppose you have a list of words, and in those list of words I want you to give me words that start with an alphabet "A", so your solution would be something like;
For each word in this list of words, if the alphabet "A" is the first letter in this word, I want that word
DIRECT SOLUTION:
for word in words:
if "A" == word[0]:
print(word)
The actual solution to the challenge:
since the instructor wants you to make use of indexing, let's solve using indexing
for continent in continents:
if "A" == continent[0]: # Made use of indexing here uisng the "if" condition
print("* " + continent)
That's it
Tsering Choedhen
1,051 PointsThank you @boi for your interesting way of making me to think for the solution.