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pya medan
59 PointsHelp Me
I'd like you to now only print continents that begin with the letter "A".
HINT: Remember that you can access characters in a string by index
continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']
# Your code here
for continent in continents:
print("* " + continent)
3 Answers
Alan Ayoub
40,294 PointsHi Pya,
The for loop is looking for continent in continents and we need to only print the continents that begin with the letter A.
I personally like to start with Pseudo Code:
// If continent starts with the letter A, print continent
For me, there are two things that we need to do:
- write an if statement
- and reference the first index in the array of continent making it equal to the letter A
When we look for the first letter in any array, we need to reference the first index like so: contient[0]
So in challenge 2, we simply need to add this condition:
if continent[0] == 'A':
Our final code for this challenge looks like this:
for continent in continents:
if continent[0] == 'A':
print("* " + continent)
I hope that helps!
Kevin Langmade
13,896 PointsHi Pya,
This code also works but I think Alan's is a bit cleaner. This code, however, uses the 'in' keyword that was also mentioned in the video.
for continent in continents:
if "A" in continent[0]:
print("* " + continent)
pya medan
59 PointsThanks Alan
Tim Spangler
3,538 PointsTim Spangler
3,538 PointsThanks for the reminder, I blanked on adding an if statement.