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Sehrish Ijaz
756 Pointshow to retrieve continents starting with letter A?
i don't know the code in for loop to get elements with a specific letter
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
# Your code here
2 Answers
Sehrish Ijaz
756 Pointstinents = [ 'Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia', ]
Your code here
for continent in continents: print("*",continent)
Steven Parker
231,236 PointsYou'll still need the code you did for task 1 that creates the loop, you will just add an "if" statement to control when the "print" happens.
You can access individual characters in a string by indexing, using brackets similar to working with a list. For example, since index numbers start at 0, the first character of "mystring" would be "mystring[0]".
You could then compare that to the letter "A" in a conditional expression as part of the "if" statement.
Sehrish Ijaz
756 PointsCan you please send me the whole code?
Steven Parker
231,236 PointsPlease post the code you passed task 1 with first, then I can show you what you need to add for task 2.
Steven Parker
231,236 PointsSo between the "for" line and the "print", you could add:
if continent[0] == "A":
And be sure to adjust the indenting of the "print" line.