for Statement
The other looping mechanism in Python comes to us in the form of the for statement. Unlike the traditional conditional looping for statement found in mainstream third generation languages (3GLs) like C, Fortran, or Pascal, Python’s for is more akin to a
scripting language’s iterative foreach loop.
General Syntax
Iterative loops index through individual elements of a set and terminate when all the items are exhausted. Python’s for statement iterates only through sequences, as indicated in the general syntax here:
Example
for items in sequence:
statement1;
statement2;
.
.
statementN
Example
>>> nameList = ['Walter', "Nicole", 'Steven', 'Henry'] >>> for eachName in nameList: print eachName Walter Nicole Steven Henry
