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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

David Sanchez
David Sanchez
623 Points
Posted by David Sanchez
David Sanchez
623 Points

Lists Indexing - Printing certain words beginning with a specific letter

Please help with the solving the programming challenge. I'm trying to print the continents that begin with the letter A only.

I've already reviewed the section on lists multiple times and I don't believe the instructor covers this.

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

2 Answers

Vikas Choudhary
Vikas Choudhary
Courses Plus Student 9,836 Points

You have to check that first letter of each continent is "A" or not. If it is then only you have to print it

Solution

for continent in continents:
    if continent[0] == "A":
        print("*", continent)
David Sanchez
David Sanchez
623 Points
David Sanchez
David Sanchez
623 Points

Thank you. This worked.

Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
20,315 Points
Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
20,315 Points

It has been covered, you just need to add together a few things you have learned for this challenge.

You need to access the first letter of each string, and IF it is 'A', then you want to print it.

Hope this helps.