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2,382 PointsHow to access characters in a string by index?
For example, I have a list of continents and I only want to print those starting with A.
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
for continent in continents:
print("* " + continent)
1 Answer
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 PointsYou can treat a string like an array and use bracket notation: mystring[index] where index is between 0 and length of the string -1. For example continent[0] would return the first character in continent.