the for operator allows you to: in python

The for loop in Python is used for iterating over a sequence (i.e. list, tuple, string, etc.) It executes a set of statements, once for each item in the sequence. The following is the syntax of the for loop in Python:

main.py
for item in sequence:
    # statements to be executed
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Here, item is a variable that takes on the value of each element in sequence one by one, and the statements within the loop are executed for each value of item.

Let's take an example of using a for loop to iterate over a list of numbers and print them one by one:

main.py
numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

for num in numbers:
    print(num)
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Output:

main.py
1
2
3
4
5
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6 lines

As we can see, we have used the for loop to iterate over the numbers list and print each number in a separate line using the print() function.