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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Jason Loveless
Jason Loveless
726 Points
Posted by Jason Loveless
Jason Loveless
726 Points

I'd like you to now only print continents that begin with the letter "A".

Finding this a bit tricky, please could someone show me the correct code, i'm confusing myself ahaa

continents.py 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]
for continent[0,3,5,6] in continents:
    print("*", continent)

2 Answers

Scott Bailey
Scott Bailey
13,190 Points
Scott Bailey
Scott Bailey
13,190 Points 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]

# Your code here
for name in continents:
    if "A" == name[0]:
        print(f"* {name}")

The for loop will go through each of the items in the list, then the if statement checks each name - if the first letter of the name matches "A" it will print "* name"

Hope this helps!

Grzegorz Zielinski
Grzegorz Zielinski
5,838 Points
Grzegorz Zielinski
Grzegorz Zielinski
5,838 Points

I would do it in completely different way.

Here is my FULL solution:

let continents = [
  "Asia",
  "South America",
  "North America",
  "Africa",
  "Europe",
  "Antarctica",
  "Australia",
];

let html = "";

for (i = 0; i < continents.length; i += 1) {
  // Loop goes through all the index objects

  if (continents[i].charAt(0) === "A")
    // Checks if there is a name with "A" as a first letter, "chartAt(indexValue)" is a  method which checks for you if there is a certain letter standing in a word at specified index position, in this cause "0" cause you want to check first letter.

    html += continents[i]; // Adds all the index values with "A" as a first letter to 'html'
}

console.log(html); // prints all 'html' to console

There is few improvements which you could do like ignoring the fact if the first letter is capitalized or not etc. but this is just simple answer for your question.

It prints all the names which starts with "A" in console, if you want it to print it to the page or in any other way just modify "console.log(html)" at the end of script :)

Hope this helps

[EDIT]

Oh my God, I've just noticed that it is a question about script in Python, sorry for that, the solution I've posted here is for JS, my mistake.