On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:36:13AM -0500, Jacqueline Canales wrote:
> Thank you guys so much i was able to figure it out. I definitely thought to
> much into the the problem and made it harder on myself. Cant thank you
> enough for assisting me. I have one more problem with the coding tho.
>
> composers = ['Antheil', 'Saint-Saens', 'Beethoven', 'Easdale', 'Nielsen']
> new_list = []
> person = new_list
This line above (person = new_list) is unnecessary, since it never gets
used before the next line sets it to something else.
> for person in composers:
> if person[0].lower() == person[-1].lower():
> print(person)
>
> Output:
> Saint-Saens
> Easdale
> Nielsen
>
> composers = ['Antheil', 'Saint-Saens', 'Beethoven', 'Easdale', 'Nielsen']
> new_list = []
> person = new_list
> for person in composers:
> if person[0].lower() == person[-1].lower():
> new_list.append(person)
> print(new_list)
Here you print the content of new_list each time through the loop, so
you see it growing. Instead, get rid of the indentation so that it runs
when the loop is finished:
for person in composers:
if person[0].lower() == person[-1].lower():
new_list.append(person)
print(new_list)
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Steven
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