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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Anthony Costanza
Anthony Costanza
2,123 Points
Posted by Anthony Costanza
Anthony Costanza
2,123 Points

SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

Not sure why I'm getting this on challenge 2

continents.py 
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

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi 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! :sparkles: