[BangPypers] Beginner Help

L Radhakrishna Rao satishsagar83 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 2 11:14:57 CEST 2013


for w in words:



On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Manish Reddy
<manishreddytirumala at gmail.com>wrote:

> w is like a variable for python. You can use any variable instead of w and
> get the same output.
>
> Your code is telling python to execute something for each item in the list.
> So, w takes 'cat', 'window', 'defenestrate' each time and executes the code
> for each of them.
>
> Hope I helped.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Gaurav Malhotra <gaurav.tula at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Below is the code (with output) which can be found in the Python Official
> > Documentation:
> >
> > >>> # Measure some strings:
> >
> > ... words = ['cat', 'window', 'defenestrate']
> >
> > >>> for w in words:
> >
> > ...     print w, len(w)
> >
> > ...
> >
> > cat 3
> >
> > window 6
> >
> > defenestrate 12
> >
> > # The Problem is:
> > When "w" is not defined how python interpreter can evaluate the output??
> >
> > Please Explain the lines where "w" is occurred. if i would replace "w"
> with
> > any other variable, it will show the same output.
> >
> > I want to know "What is happening in the back (i mean how interpreter is
> > handling it)" ??
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Gaurav Malhotra
> >
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