Python:For Tutorial

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You can use the for loop to make a section of code repeat many times.

Program Code	Output
for i in range(10): print i	0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

The line print i happens 10 times.

In python the for loop will go over each item in a list.

for i in any list

The range() function can be used to create a list of numbers, in this example the list contains the numbers 0 to 9.

range(10)

The loop goes through the list in order and executes the code in the body:

print