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Python Python Basics (2015) Logic in Python Loop

Joseph Christianson
Joseph Christianson
435 Points
Posted by Joseph Christianson
Joseph Christianson
435 Points

How do you incorporate the string added to World? I'm thinking it's %s but this one is really odd.

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loop.py 
hellos = [
    "Hello",
    "Tungjatjeta",
    "Grüßgott",
    "Вiтаю",
    "dobrý den",
    "hyvää päivää",
    "你好",
    "早上好"
]
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Joseph,

What code have you tried? Are you able to create the for loop that would iterate through all the hellos?

3 Answers

Joseph Christianson
Joseph Christianson
435 Points
Joseph Christianson
Joseph Christianson
435 Points

I see. Okay, so in trying to understand the logic of the programming language, how does Python know that's the right step? I just don't understand how a single value tells the program, okay grab these strings. Can you explain?

Haider Ali
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Haider Ali
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Haider Ali
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Haider Ali
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Hi Joseph, the way you concatenate 2 or more things together in python is by simply using a + sign. Here is what your code should look like:

hellos = [
    "Hello",
    "Tungjatjeta",
    "Grüßgott",
    "Вiтаю",
    "dobrý den",
    "hyvää päivää",
    "你好",
    "早上好"
]

for i in hellos:       #go through each string in hellos
  print(i + ' World')  #print the hello followed by the string ' World'
Joseph Christianson
Joseph Christianson
435 Points
Joseph Christianson
Joseph Christianson
435 Points

Thanks for the speedy reply, Haider and Jason. what does the "i" serve as? As in, how does it bring each of those strings down?

Haider Ali
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Haider Ali
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Sorry, I assumed you had learned about this. Each time the loop happens, it goes through the hellos list and 'i' is the current item in the list. You do not have to write 'i' as it is just the name of a variable and can be called anything. However, it is very common that programmers use i and other short names like this.