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Python for Basic Data Analysis

Start your data science journey with Python. Learn practical Python programming skills for basic data manipulation and analysis.

For loops

A  for  loop is used for iterating (perform or utter repeatedly) over a sequence (that is either a list, a tuple, a dictionary, a set, or a string).

For loops

 for  loops in a list


With the  for  loop, we can execute a set of statements - once for each item in a list, tuple, set etc.

Syntax

fruits = ["apples", "bananas", "cherries"]
for x in fruits:
  print(x)

This shows that a  for  loop iteration is made, and it runs through each item in the list called fruits. 

Here, the x refers to a temporary variable used to store the value of the current position in the range of the for loop that only has scope within its for loop. You could use any other variable name in place of "i" such as "count" or "x" or "number".

Below, i used fruit as the temporary variable instead of x.

fruits = ["apples", "bananas", "cherries"]
for fruit in fruits:
  print(x)

 

Examples

 for  loops in a string


Even strings are iterable objects as they contain a sequence of characters.

Syntax

for x in banana:
  print(x)


Example

 for  loops with  breaks 

With the  break  statement, we can stop the loop before it loops through all the items.

Syntax

fruits = ["apples", "bananas", "cherries"]
for x in fruits:
  print(x)
  if x == "bananas":
    break


Examples

 for  loops with  continue 


With the  continue  statement, we can skip over a part of the loop where an additional condition is set, and then go on to complete the rest of the loop. 

Syntax  

fruits = ["apples", "bananas", "cherries"]
for x in fruits:
  if x == "bananas":
    continue
  print(x)


Examples

Video Guide

Exercises

1. Create a list containing 5 names and use the  for  loop to print out all the names

2. Use the same list from number 1, use  break  to stop after the third element. 

3. Iterate the string "hullaballoo". Use  continue  to skip all the letter 'l', and print the rest.

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