If you’re moving to Python from C or Java, you might be confused by Python’s for loops. Python doesn’t actually have for loops… at least not the same kind of for loop that C-based languages have. Python’s for loops are actually foreach loops.
In this article I’ll compare Python’s for loops to those of other languages and discuss the usual ways we solve common problems with
for loops in Python.
For loops in other languages
Before we look at Python’s loops, let’s take a look at a for loop in JavaScript:
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