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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Moritz Wallawitsch
Moritz Wallawitsch
736 Points

Hey can someone please explain to me why this does not work and how it would work?

I tried this code

continents.py 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]
# Your code here
for i in continents:
    if continents = continents[i][0] = "A":
    print("* " + i)

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 Points

Not sure what you have there:

  • You are using assignment operators in an if statement that don't make sense
  • i in your for in loop is a string but you try to use it as an index in continents[i][0]
  • You need to indent your print statement to be the code executed by your if statement

This would work

for i in continents:
    if i[0] == "A":
        print("* " + i)

In the code above i is each continent name and i[0] is the first character in the name. The comparison operator == is used to compare the character to "A" and if true print the bulleted name.