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Simple practice exercise using Python's startswith() and index() methods.
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starts_with.py
words = ["hello", "Break", "cat", "blue", "brown", "zoo", "baby", "pie", "BOOM!"]
def b_count(lst):
# prints index and string of every element in a list that starts with the letter 'b' or 'B'
for i in lst:
if i.startswith("b") or i.startswith("B"):
print("Index " + str(lst.index(i)) + ": " + i)
b_count(words)
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