you can omit the variable assignment in the middle

Question

words = ["hello", "world", "spam", "eggs"]
counter = 0
max_index = len(words) - 1

# this is the original code
while counter <= max_index:
word = words[counter] # note the name of variable assigned: word
print(word + "!")
counter = counter + 1

# Cutting out the middle variable
while counter <= max_index:
# word = words[counter] note this line is now commented out
print(words[counter] + "!") # the call to variable word has been changed to words
counter = counter + 1
# this should should result in the same output

Answer 1

wolf in the first example you are just creating a copy and printing the copy, so there is no problem you can do it all you want

Answer 2

If you run both code samples in one file in a single run, the first code will print a result. Then coming to the second code, the while condition does not match, because counter has reached value 4 from the first code. It should be initialized again with 0. Then the second code does also print the result:

words = ["hello", "world", "spam", "eggs"]
counter = 0
max_index = len(words) - 1

while counter <= max_index:
word = words[counter] # note the name of variable assigned: word
print(word + "!")
counter = counter + 1

counter = 0 # this line is inserted
while counter <= max_index:
print(words[counter] + "!")
counter = counter + 1

Answer 3

what is your question?

Answer 4

Can this be a problem doing this shortcut?