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Gavin Donathan
Python Development Techdegree Student 5,296 Pointsfor 1 in groceries: looping
Hello everyone,
I have a question in reference to the for in loop topic. name = 'dog' for i in name: print(i) This prints out each letter respectively. I tried this with different letters and words, but I am unable to assign a number in place of the (i).
Why is this?
If the i/(letter) chosen is simply associated with the sequence of the given variable or list at times, why does it not accept numbers?
Just curious.
Thank you all for your time and thoughts!
1 Answer
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,423 PointsHey Gavin Donathan, the short answer is numbers are immutable and cannot be used as variable names. No variable name can begin with a digit. See docs:
Within the ASCII range (U+0001..U+007F), the valid characters for identifiers are the same as in Python 2.x: the uppercase and lowercase letters A through Z, the underscore _ and, except for the first character, the digits 0 through 9.
Post back if you have more questions. Good luck!!