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Carlos Alvarez
2,205 PointsPrinting labels with certain letters
I'm drawing a huge blank on how to print certain labels that have a specific letter in the start. I've looked at my notes and can't figure it out.
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
print(continents)
for continent in continents:
print("* " + continent)
3 Answers
![Mel Rumsey](https://uploads.teamtreehouse.com/production/profile-photos/11534325/micro_yellow.jpg)
Mel Rumsey
Treehouse ModeratorExactly what Megan said! This would be a great time to use an 'if' statement so let's say you have a list that you only want to display the names starting with M:
names = [
'Mel',
'Carlos',
'Megan',
'Mary',
'Joe',
'Alex'
]
for name in names:
if name[0] == "M":
print(f"* {name}")
This would output
- Mel
- Megan
- Mary
![Megan Amendola](https://uploads.teamtreehouse.com/production/profile-photos/7340382/micro_headshot.jpg)
Megan Amendola
Treehouse TeacherYou can access specific characters in a string just like you access items in a list with indexing. For example, if I wanted to access the second character in animal = 'cat'
, I would print(animal[1])
.
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Carlos Alvarez
2,205 PointsThank you both so much I wrote down the correct code I just didn't understand it until now.