Why for loop function print list 3 times?

Question

a= ["hello",77,99]
for element in a :
print (a)
instead of printing element i print a and python printed that list 3 times .

Answer 1

a = [1,2,3]
for var in a:
print(var)

#not print(a)

Answer 2

what about print(a) ,could you explain it bit more. glad you replied