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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Mathew Yangang
Mathew Yangang
4,433 Points

Accessing list using index

I'm trying to print out only continents that begin with the letter A but don't know what i am doing wrong

continents.py 
continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']
print("continents:")
for continent in continents:
    print("* "+ continent)
for "A" in continents:
    print(continents)




# Your code here

2 Answers

Roger Sullivan
Roger Sullivan
10,992 Points

your whole second for loop is unneeded. all you need is to go above your first print statement and add an if statement that uses the startswith() method

something like this

for continent in continents:
    if continent.startswith("A"):
        print("* "+ continent)
Marzoog AlGhazwi
Marzoog AlGhazwi
15,796 Points
Marzoog AlGhazwi
Marzoog AlGhazwi
15,796 Points

you don't need a second for loop, instead make some changes to the first loop 

for continent in continents:
    if continent[0] == "A":    
        print('* ', continent)