Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Vincent Nguyen
Vincent Nguyen
4,520 Points

I am stuck on a Python list coding challenge. How do I only print continents that begin with the letter "A".

Could someone please help with what I am doing wrong? I need to only print continents that start with A

continents.py 
continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']

for continent in continents:
    if continents == "A":
        print ("* " + continent)

1 Answer

Jerson Otzoy
Jerson Otzoy
1,532 Points
Jerson Otzoy
Jerson Otzoy
1,532 Points

Hello, As it says you can access the content of the string by index, so the first character of the string would have and index 0, and that value is the one you should compare to 'A'

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