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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Tapiwanashe Jandura
Tapiwanashe Jandura
2,677 Points

How do I separate particular elements os a list

I want to separate words that start with A only. Please help

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

print(continent[0])

1 Answer

adrian miranda
adrian miranda
13,561 Points
adrian miranda
adrian miranda
13,561 Points

You aren't entirely clear about what you are trying to achieve, but this will print out only the continents that start with "A":

for continent in continents:
    if continent[0] == 'A':
        print(c)

As you can see, although continent is a string, you can refer to continent[0], which will give you the first character in continent. You could also solve the problem with a regular expression, but that may be overkill for what you are doing.