Python Programming with Raspberry Pi

A for loop

In Python, a for loop is used to execute a task for n times. A for loop iterates through each element of a sequence. This sequence could be a dictionary, list, or any other iterator. For example, let's discuss an example where we execute a loop:

    for i in range(0, 10):        print("Loop execution no: ", i)

In the preceding example, the print statement is executed 10 times:

In order to execute the print task 10 times, the range() function (https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#range) was used. The range function generates a list of numbers for a start and stop values that are passed as an arguments to the function. In this ...