The code `for item in range(2):` is the start of...

The code for item in range(2): is the start of a loop in Python. Here's what it does:

1. It initializes a for loop, which will iterate over a sequence of numbers provided by the range(2) function.
2. The range(2) function generates a sequence of numbers starting from 0 (inclusive) and ending at 2 (exclusive). So, it produces the numbers: [0, 1].
3. The variable item will take on each value in the sequence [0, 1] one at a time during each iteration of the loop.

This means that the code block inside the for loop (not shown here) will execute twice:

• On the first iteration, item will be 0.
• On the second iteration, item will be 1.

For example, if the loop had a print statement:

for item in range(2):
    print(item)

The output would be:

0
1