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1,407 PointsPrinting contents only beginning with A from a list?
I'd like to only print items in the list, that only begin with the letter 'A'
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
# Your code here
for continent in continents:
print("* " + continent)
1 Answer
Moosa Bonomali
6,297 PointsIn this case you need to used string indexing;
so for example, if you had this code
sentence = "Hello"
You can access the contents of that string using indexing, similar to arrays. For example
first_letter = sentence[0]
second_letter = sentence[1]
# and so on
For this exercise see the additional IF statement you need to include to get continents starting with the letter "A"
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
# Your code here
for continent in continents:
if continent[0] == "A":
print("* " + continent)