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Nadia Stoyanova-Lyttle
2,063 PointsIndentationError
I'm stuck with a task to print continents starting with "A":
continents = [ 'Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia', ]
Your code here
print("continents:")
for continent in continents:
if continent[0] == "A":
print("* " + continent)
Could you please help?
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
# Your code here
print("continents:")
for continent in continents:
if continent[0] == 'A':
print('* ' + continent)
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,275 PointsAs the system said, there's an indentation issue. Otherwise, you have it just right.
Everything inside a loop must be indented more than the "for" line, and then anything controlled by a conditional must be indented more than the "if":
for continent in continents:
if continent[0] == 'A': # indented for loop
print('* ' + continent) # indented more for conditional
Nadia Stoyanova-Lyttle
2,063 PointsThank you so much, Steven! It's the little details that I have found the hardest to make right in my early python steps :-)