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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Sabry Salman
Sabry Salman
2,465 Points

List - printing only items in a list with letter starting with 'A'

Any help appreciated.

continents.py 
continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']
for continent in continents:
   print ("* " + continent(0,3,5,6))

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,007 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,007 Points

Inside the loop, "continent" just represents one of the names, so you can't add parentheses to call it like a function.

What the challenge is asking you to do is to control the print statement to show only names that begin with the letter "A", but it needs to work with other lists than the example shown, so you cannot rely on index values.

Instead, actually test the first letter in an "if" statement.