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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by isaacrichardson
isaacrichardson
14,313 Points

I'm trying to get the continents that start with the Letter "A". It says there is an AssertionError.

Ive tried this on my computer and it works fine but I try it here and it doesn't. It wants me to do this by string indexing.

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

for con in continents:
    if 'A' in con:
        print(con)

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

The membership operator ("in") will tell if the letter occurs anywhere in the string, which is not what you want here. For example there is an "A" in "South America" but that's not a name that begins with "A".

You don't have to use indexing, but it's one convenient way of checking just the first letter of a name.

Also the sample output shown in the challenge comments indicate that each name should be preceded by an asterisk and a space.

isaacrichardson
isaacrichardson
14,313 Points
isaacrichardson
isaacrichardson
14,313 Points

Thank you. It works now