The code `for char in word` is the start of...

August 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM

for char in word

The code for char in word is the start of a for loop in Python. It iterates through each character in the string variable word, one character at a time. Here's what happens:

  1. word is expected to be a string.
  2. The loop assigns each character from word to the variable char as it iterates.
  3. Inside the loop, you can perform operations using the char variable, which represents the current character of word.

For example:

word = "hello"
for char in word:
    print(char)

Output:

h
e
l
l
o

In this case, the loop sequentially steps through each character of the string word ("hello") and prints them one by one.

So generally, for char in word is used to process each character of the string word individually.

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