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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Lauritz Patterson
Lauritz Patterson
1,207 Points

Im not sure where I'm going wrong here

I feel that this is simple but what is wrong?

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

2 Answers

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

I notice two bugs:

  • :warning: You are using concatenation (adding strings together), so the strings will be glued together without spaces.
  • :warning: You are attempting to add the string "*" and continents together. But continents is a list! :/

To fix the bugs, try...

for continent in continents:
    print("* " + continent)
Shadd Anderson
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Shadd Anderson
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Shadd Anderson
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Shadd Anderson
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Your issue is here in the print method:

for continent in continents:
    print("*" + continents)

continents is the list of continents, not the actual continent that has been selected in the for loop. Simply erase the extraneous s at the end like so:

for continent in continents:
    print("*" + continent)

and you'll be good to go!

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Sorry Shadd, but there's one more bug in his code ;)

(Remember: code challenges are picky about spacing!)

Shadd Anderson
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Shadd Anderson
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ah, I didn't even realize this was for a code challenge. lol! Whoops