Editing Community Data Science Course (Spring 2015)/Day 2 Followup
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Now, this program will print out "2" (the number of names that start with "m") instead of "4". | Now, this program will print out "2" (the number of names that start with "m") instead of "4". | ||
I can also use append to create a new list from within a for loop. So lets say I wanted to create a new list that contains only those "m" names. In this case, the code I'll write is very similar except I will replace the counter with an empty list (<code>[]</code>) and I'll append things to it every time there's a match. Here's an example: | |||
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