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Melissa Murphy
2,258 PointsList Filtering by String Information
The object is to filter the list by continents beginning with the letter "A" (this only applies for lines 7 down). No matter what I try it doesn't work. I've tried filter, lambda, and variants of the current code in the file. I can't get this to work and I'm sure I've hit the point where I'm missing something small.
I hate that Treehouse doesn't show you the Challenge answers for you to learn from your mistakes!
continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']
# Your code here
for land in continents:
print("* " + land)
start_letters = "A"
for land in continents:
if land.lower()[0] == " A":
print(land)
3 Answers
Melissa Murphy
2,258 PointsNevermind. I figured out where I had made it more complicated than needed.
Oskar Lundberg
9,534 Pointscontinents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']
for land in continents:
if land.lower()[0] == "a":
print("* " + land)
^This passes the challenge.
- The challenge want you to only print out the continents who starts with the letter 'A'.
- land.lower() will never be equal to an uppercase A. therefor you most use either .upper() or * == "a":* I hope this helps :D
Oskar Lundberg
9,534 Pointswhopps, didn't see your Nevermind message before I replied. Glad you figured it out :)
Fidelis Chime
6,077 PointsWe're still using the phone_book, with the columns id, first_name, last_name and phone.
Imagine we're implementing the autocomplete feature for a search facility on the phone where a user can start typing a last name and suggestions will appear. Write a query to retrieve all values from the last name column where the last name value is present. Only retrieve the last_name column.
Fidelis Chime
6,077 Pointsplease guys am struggling with the above question , pls assist if you can