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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Mickey Best
Mickey Best
505 Points

cant find what im doing wrong

looked at a few others that had a problem but i cant seem to figure this out

continents.py 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]
for continent in continents:
    if continent(0) == "A" :
        print( "* " + continent)

2 Answers

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points

You are very close but should use square brackets instead of parentheses here:

 if continent(0) == "A" :

should be

 if continent[0] == "A":
Mickey Best
Mickey Best
505 Points

ha thank you

desirea holton
desirea holton
7,229 Points
desirea holton
desirea holton
7,229 Points

Can you explain the way that particular line of code works? Is it because it's iterating through each string that makes up each list item first? And is the [0] the zeroth character in the string?