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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Randolph Davidson
Randolph Davidson
1,117 Points

Is this challenge broken? I don't understand why it's printing out extra information.

I am doing the introducing list python challenge task 2 of 2. In my code below I have tried several different ways of solving this challenge (they are all there for example purposes). With a loop which for some reason prints of Europe, with an if statement that states A continent that does not start with A was found. And then I called the index and the same issue. Am I doing something wrong.

Any ideas on this issue? I thank any and everyone in advance.

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

for A in continents: 
    print(continents)

print(len(continents))

print(continents[0])
print(continents[3])
print(continents[5])
print(continents[6])

if continents == "A": 
    print(continents)

3 Answers

Robert Gulley
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Robert Gulley
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 10,722 Points

There should only be one print statement. Also make sure there is no space between continent and [0].

for continent in continents: 
     if continent[0] == "A":
          print("* " + continent)
Randolph Davidson
Randolph Davidson
1,117 Points

Robert Gulley Thanks so much, I cannot believe I didn't catch that lol. It passed now.

Robert Gulley
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Robert Gulley
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 10,722 Points
Robert Gulley
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Robert Gulley
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 10,722 Points

Hi Randolph! -

Remember that you can access characters in a string by it's index. Since we want to know the first character, we would reference the 0 index. Therefore, inside the for loop, we would have an if statement that checks the first index, and if it equals "A", we print the result, like below:

# Your code here
for continent in continents:
    if continent[0] == "A":
        print(" * " + continent)

This is all the code that you need to complete the challenge.

Hope this helps!

Randolph Davidson
Randolph Davidson
1,117 Points

Hello Robert Gulley thanks for answering. I should have added that I did that as well. I still get the error that it looks like an continent that does not start with A was included.

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

Your code here

for continent in continents: print(" * " + continent) if continent [0] == "A": print("+ " + continent)

Randolph Davidson
Randolph Davidson
1,117 Points
Randolph Davidson
Randolph Davidson
1,117 Points

Apologies in advance for the poor clarity in grammar.