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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Jorge Grajeda
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Jorge Grajeda
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I figured out how to do the first challenge but am now stuck on the second one

I reviewed the video but couldn't understand how to get the continents that start with A

continents.py 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]
print(continents[0],[3],[5],[6])

print("continents:")
for continent in continents:
    print("* " + continent)
Jason Kampf
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Have you got this to work yet? I've been stuck on this same challenge for awhile now.

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there, Jorge Grajeda ! Yup you got the first part done just fine. Nice job! Just like lists can be accessed by index, so can strings!

If I had the following:

greeting = "Hello World"
print(greeting[1])

It would print out e because "e" is the second letter or the index of 1. Yes, it starts at an index of 0 just like lists.

So in your current code you would need to add an if statement just above that print statement so that if continent[0] is equal to "A" then print the continent.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Jennifer Nordell
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Jorge Grajeda ok :smiley: How about this:

if continent[0]  == "A":

It should be located inside the for loop. Your code should contain only one print statement. That print statement should run if the line above evaluates to true.

Hope this helps! :sparkles: