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Anthony Costanza
2,123 PointsSyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
Not sure why I'm getting this on challenge 2
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
# Your code here
print("continents:")
for continent in continents:
print("* " + continent)
print("continents with A are: {}.format(continents[0,3,5,6]))
1 Answer
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there, Anthony Costanza! The cause of the syntax error is a missing quotation mark on the final line before the .format()
. However, you are doing way too much here. Just like you can get an element from a list at an index, you can also do the same for a string.
For instance, the following code would print "A":
greeting = "Hello, Anthony!"
print(greeting[7])
The capital "A" is the letter residing at index 7 of the string.
What you want here is inside your for
loop and immediately above your print statement, an if
statement that does a check on continent[0]
to see if it is equal to "A" and only execute the print statement if that is True
.
Hope this helps!