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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Holly Bancroft
Holly Bancroft
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Posted by Holly Bancroft
Holly Bancroft
5,162 Points

How did you solve the question "I'd like you to now only print continents that begin with the letter "A"."?

I am trying to figure out how to only list the continents that begin with "A". Could someone show me how they solved this?

continents.py 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]

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

1 Answer

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

There is a hint: Remember that you can access characters in a string by index. For your code you would use continent[0] to access the first character of continent (the index starts at 0).

Then use an if statement and compare this to "A" and if they match print your bulleted list item.