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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Isaac Morales
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Isaac Morales
Python Development Techdegree Student 749 Points

I solved the question but its not the way it wants me to format it. Unsure how to format this.

title.

Basically I searched this up on StackOverflow, haha. I have reviewed videos but I can't seem to find the relevant one.

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

for c in continents:
    if c.startswith('A'):
        print(c)
Isaac Morales
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Isaac Morales
Python Development Techdegree Student 749 Points

I actually ended up completing the challenge by using an If statement to look at the 0 position. If case anyone is also looking for help on this challenge.

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
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Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,454 Points

This Stack Overflow says direct indexing is 2x faster, but startswith is more readable.

The issue with your code is it’s missing the requested asterisk and space before the continent name.