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Python

Kerri McDaid
Kerri McDaid
562 Points

Help with Introducing Lists task 2 of 2

I'm really confused at why my code isn't correct for this coding challenge: I'd like you to now only print continents that begin with the letter "A".

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


for continent in continents:
    if continent[0] == "A":
        print(f"*{continent}")

When I take out the code for Task 1 it gives an Error that Asia isn't found and when I do it as above the lists print perfectly at the top but it gives this error: File "", line 14, in test_filtered AssertionError: 'South America' unexpectedly found in '* Asia\n* South America\n* North America\n* Africa\n* Europe\n* Antarctica\n* Australia\n*Asia\n*Africa\n*Antarctica\n*Australia' : Whoops! I found a country that didn't start with A in your output

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong with this code when the list that prints is as its asked

1 Answer

Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
Treehouse Project Reviewer

What you have at the bottom is correct for the second part of the challenge you'll just want to check 2 things

  1. That you've removed the top for loop and only have the updated one

  2. That you add a space after the asterisk (*) in your print statement

continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]
# Your code here
for continent in continents:
    if continent[0] == "A":
        print(f"* {continent}")
Kerri McDaid
Kerri McDaid
562 Points

Thank you! I had been stuck on that for way too long, I thought I had to leave the first task in too

Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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You're welcome. Yes these challenges can be extremely picky with the answers they expect back sometimes 👍