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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Hrithik Sharma
Hrithik Sharma
6,090 Points
Posted by Hrithik Sharma
Hrithik Sharma
6,090 Points

How is my program wrong and the task was: I'd like you to now only print continents that begin with the letter "A".

i have done this code and the result is correct but somehow its saying to use "for" loop

continents.py 
continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']
# Your code here
for continent in continents:
    print("*", continent)
# This is code of second task
i = 0
while i != len(continents):
    if "A" in continents[i][0]:
        print("*", continents[i])
    i = i + 1

3 Answers

Wade Williams
Wade Williams
24,476 Points
Wade Williams
Wade Williams
24,476 Points

It appears that you might be getting the wrong answer because you're answering Task 1 and Task 2 at the same time and you're printing out all continents followed by continents that start with "A" and they just want continents that start with "A" in Task 2. You should build off of your answer in Task 1 to complete Task 2.

Here's my solution:

for continent in continents:
    if continent.startswith("A"):
        print("*", continent)
William Owuama
William Owuama
7,878 Points
William Owuama
William Owuama
7,878 Points

for c in continents: if "A" == c[0]: print("* " + c)

What they are asking you to do is extend your existing for loop to check if the continent starts with an 'A'