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Start your free trialBasel Kanaan
4,458 Pointsmay ik what is the problem here
i think im doing it right but still get an error
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
# Your code here
for continent in continents :
print("* " , continent )
3 Answers
Pedro Cabral
33,586 PointsYour print function is outputting one space too many. This is because when you pass more than one argument, it already adds a space as the default separator. You can fix it via one of the following ways:
print("*", continent)
print("* ", continent, sep="") # this option, overrides the default separator (space)
print("* " + continent)
Basel Kanaan
4,458 Pointsthanks bro may you help me with this one also
for continent in continents: if continent[0] in "A": print('* ' + continent)
i need to print the countries that start with A
Pedro Cabral
33,586 PointsThat will work, optionally you could also use the str method called startswith(), you can run help(str.startswith) to see the how to use.
Basel Kanaan
4,458 Pointsthank you bro