print out each letter of a word

[Peter Otten]

Gary Wessle wrote:

> I am going through this tut from
> http://ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS/python/english/chap07.htm
> 
> I am getting errors running those 2 groups as below as is from the tut

Next time, please copy and paste the complete "traceback", the error
messages that clutter your screen when something goes wrong.

>  index = 0
>  while index < len(fruit):
>    letter = fruit[index]
>    print letter
>    index = index + 1

> for char in fruit:
>   print char

Does the error message you get look like this?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'fruit' is not defined

That is because you are using a variable named fruit before you have
assigned a value to it. Put

fruit = "Banana"

before your snippet and everything should work as expected.

Peter