Why do we say( for word in words) "For loops"

Question

Can the "word" part be assigned to any word?

Answer 1

Look, i have a basket of things.

For each thing in the basket, Ill say "I found a thing!"

(if i have 3 things in my basket)
I found a thing!
I found a thing!
I found a thing!

My basket is still my basket!

Youre focusing too much on it, mabey thinking too much.

Answer 2

yup, say you have a list of words.

words = ['hi', 'there', 'pi', 'bear']

# you CAN type (but dont know why)

for monkey in words:
print(monkey)

# and output would be
hi
there
pi
bear

youre basically assigning each item in the iterable a variable name on the fly, printing it, then automatically assigning that variable name to the next item and so on.

Answer 3

' word ' is there a temporary variable name.. You can use any name..
for i in words :
for j in words :
for word in words :
for word1 in words :
All valid..
If you need assign to any other
ex:
wordfound = word

Answer 4

Thank you for taking your time to help me 👍

Answer 5

"for word in words"
is a specific python syntax to access all items of a list one by one. You can use any variable name instead of "word".
You can also replace it by
"for i in range (len(words))"
It will do the same. But "for word in words" looks clean and easier to understand

Answer 6

Computer=['CPU', 'RAM', 'GPU']
So one would say
For parts in computer
print(parts)

CPU
RAM
GPU

So does that mean that "Computer" has changed to "parts" or is it still computer but parts is a temporary varaible so after you said that it stays computer or... All the code further down would be using the varaible "parts"

Answer 7

I would love to read more questions about this