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Start your free trialAriadna Rodriguez
6,281 PointsI don't know how to set the condition in the loop to say if the first letter in the continent is "A" then print.
I've tried a while loop and using print(continent[0,3,5,6]) but I get an error and I don't understand why.
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
# Your code here
print("continents:")
for continent in continents:
print("* " + continent)
print(continents[0])
1 Answer
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsIn your for continent in continents:
loop, the variable continent
is assigned, in turn, to each text string of a continent's name. Each character in a string can be reference in the same manner as list
indexing. So the first character of continent
would be continent[0]
. To compare to "A", use continent[0] == "A"
Post back if you need more help. Good luck!