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Isaac Morales
Python Development Techdegree Student 749 PointsI solved the question but its not the way it wants me to format it. Unsure how to format this.
title.
Basically I searched this up on StackOverflow, haha. I have reviewed videos but I can't seem to find the relevant one.
continents = [
'Asia',
'South America',
'North America',
'Africa',
'Europe',
'Antarctica',
'Australia',
]
# Your code here
for c in continents:
if c.startswith('A'):
print(c)
1 Answer
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsThis Stack Overflow says direct indexing is 2x faster, but startswith is more readable.
The issue with your code is it’s missing the requested asterisk and space before the continent name.
Isaac Morales
Python Development Techdegree Student 749 PointsIsaac Morales
Python Development Techdegree Student 749 PointsI actually ended up completing the challenge by using an If statement to look at the 0 position. If case anyone is also looking for help on this challenge.