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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Jordan young
Jordan young
Courses Plus Student 5,277 Points

Continents mini challenge question

Hi. I think i'm loosing my mind.

In the example, i'm being asked to add a asterisk to each element in the continents list. We literally just did this same thing and now i'm getting an error:

Your code here

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

This makes zero sense to me. Can anyone assist with what is happening here?

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

2 Answers

Rick Gleitz
Rick Gleitz
47,840 Points
Rick Gleitz
Rick Gleitz
47,840 Points

You're gonna kick yourself! The challenge wants the output to look like "* Asia", Yours looks like "*Asia". So you don't just add an asterisk, it needs to have an asterisk and a space. Yikes, huh? Hope this helps. Keep it up!

Jordan young
PLUS
Jordan young
Courses Plus Student 5,277 Points
Jordan young
Jordan young
Courses Plus Student 5,277 Points

Rick, you beautiful man. Thank you so much. I come from a C# background where spacing is irrelevant so i've struggled with that notion here. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU and have an excellent day!