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960 PointsHow do you access characters in string by indexing?
Hard time figuring out the second task to this challenge on continents starting only with letter "A"
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
for continent in continents:
print("* " + continent)
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,270 PointsYou can think of a string as a list of individual characters. So for example, if you had a string called "name" and you wanted the third character from it, you could reference "name[2]
". Since index values start with 0, the index number for the third item would be 2.
So with this info, I'll bet you can create a reference for the first character of "continent".
Alan Haven
960 PointsGot it, thanks Steven!