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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Curtis Weale
Curtis Weale
989 Points

python lists -for in loop

hello . I am not sure how to select the list elements based on letters ):

continents.py 
continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']
# Your code here
#for show in continents :
  #  print ("* " + show)

tricks = ['Asia','Africa','Antarctica','Ausralia',]

for wohs in tricks : 
    print (wohs)

1 Answer

Steven Tagawa
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Steven Tagawa
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Steven Tagawa
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Steven Tagawa
Python Development Techdegree Graduate 14,438 Points

Hi Curtis,

Remember that a string acts like a list of characters. For example, if you had a string like: my_word = "Shazam!" then my_word[0] would be "S", my_word[3] would be "z", and so on. (Remember to start counting at zero!)

So in your challenge, continents is a list of words, so it's really a list of lists. The first word, "Asia", is continents[0], and so the first letter of "Asia" is continents[0][0]. That's how you isolate individual letters in strings.