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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Eswar Ambati
Eswar Ambati
890 Points

How can this be corrected?

I have been struggling on how to solve the problem if anyone could explain this step by step it would be aprreciated

continents.py 
continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']
# Your code here
for continent in continents:
    print(continent)

1 Answer

Kirsten Smith
Kirsten Smith
3,484 Points

You have the right idea, but they are asking for a BULLETED list of the continents. Your code currently prints all of the continents right next to each other, so you just need to format your print statement. Remember: to move to the next line you can use \n within the print statement. I hope this helps.

Eswar Ambati
Eswar Ambati
890 Points

Yes but the thing is I think it only wants me to output asia and south America by using the iteration won't it loop through every item in the list when it only wants to output the first 2 items?

Kirsten Smith
Kirsten Smith
3,484 Points

They are asking for ALL of the items formatted in a BULLETED list (sorry I am not yelling just using caps to highlight important parts). The only reason you are seeing two in the example is because it is just that... an example of what the output should look like. The final output will be a bulleted list of all of the continents in the list 'continents'.