Hi Jacqueline, On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Jacqueline Canales <jackiexxd...@gmail.com> wrote: > composers = ['Antheil', 'Saint-Saens', 'Beethoven', 'Easdale', 'Nielsen'] > x = 'Antheil' > s = 'Saint-Saens' > h = 'Beethoven' > y = 'Easdale' > k = 'Nielsen' > > if s[0] == 'S' or s[0] == 's' == s[-1] == 'S' or s[-1] == 's': > if y[0] == 'E' or y[0] == 'e' == y[-1] == 'E' or y[-1] == 'e': > if k[0] == 'N' or k[0] == 'n' == k[-1] == 'N' or k[-1] == 'n': > print(s,k,y) > else: > print(" ") > > ####Answer i Got Below >>>> > Saint-Saens Nielsen Easdale >>>> > > Is this what i was going for in the direction i was a bit confused if we > were suppose create loops or if statements that are verified in the actual > composers list. I don't know i feel as if i know what i need to do i just > cant put it together.
Nothing to worry. Let us break the problem down. In your first post, you mentioned this for loop: composers = ['Antheil', 'Saint-Saens', 'Beethoven', 'Easdale', 'Nielsen'] for person in composers: print(person) What does this do? It prints all the composers' names. However, what you want is to print *only* the composer whose name starts and ends with the first letter. So, what can you do? I shall try to explain with an example from every day life. Let us say, the management in your local cinema theatre says that you can choose to see all of the films playing there. So, you can see all of: 'Turbo', 'Planes' and 'The Smurfs 2'. Now, let is say that your cinema management became a little shrewd and tells you that you can only watch the films starting with 'P'. So what do you do? In your mind, you think which of 'Turbo',' Planes' and 'The Smurfs 2' starts with 'P'. So, you first check, 'Turbo' and you see that it fails the condition, but 'Planes' agree with the condition and 'The Smurfs 2' also fails. Thus, you choose 'Planes'. So, your above program is in the right direction. What you have to now do is, before printing the 'person', you need to check if the person's name starts and ends with the same letter. I already showed you how you can do so. You may find the lower() method helpful here. It returns you a capital letter into a lower one: >>> 'A'.lower() 'a' Does that make it easier? Good luck. -Amit -- http://echorand.me _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor