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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Ruslan Pilipyuk
Ruslan Pilipyuk
857 Points

How to print from a certain list things that begin with certain character

HW

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

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

You've got your loop. There's a few ways to tackle the rest of it, which all involve adding an expression to a condition statement so you're only printing from the loop when that condtion is met.

Try searching from some methods that do work on strings. Things like substring or slicing methods or the index method. Look at the hint in the code challenge that suggests you can look for the index of a string on each iteration.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-substring-a-string-in-python/

continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]

if( expression  ) {

        print("* " + continent)
}

Good luck!