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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Eric Morales
Eric Morales
844 Points
Posted by Eric Morales
Eric Morales
844 Points

For in loop iteration

I am not sure why this isn't working. I ran the code; for continent in continents: print('* ' + continents) abd it doesn't work that should be the right to do this assignment.

continents.py 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]
# Your code here

for continent in continents:
    print('* ', continents)

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

You want to print out each item ("continent", singular) on a line, not all of them ("continents", plural) every time.

Also, when you print multiple arguments, a space is automatically added between them. So you don't need to include a space with the asterisk, that causes there to be too many.

Now if you were using concatenation to join them into a single argument, then you would use a space there.