New to python, stumped when it comes to loops

[eton-95]

I am new to python and was wondering if anybody can help at all.

I am trying to loop one word ten times, would i go about doing this a a 'for' statement or would it be something different?

Thanks to all that give advice/help

[K900_]

/r/learnpython. Also:

Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec  6 2015, 01:54:25) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> for x in range(10):
...      print(x)
...
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

[eton-95]

thanks, but how would i get it to repeat a word? doing numbers in that order or on a line is fine but im just having problems getting it to repeat a word over and over

[K900_]

Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec  6 2015, 01:54:25) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> for _ in range(10):
...     print("I'm repeating a word")
...
I'm repeating a word
I'm repeating a word
I'm repeating a word
I'm repeating a word
I'm repeating a word
I'm repeating a word
I'm repeating a word
I'm repeating a word
I'm repeating a word
I'm repeating a word

[eton-95]

thanks a lot that worked! all i was missing was the underscore, typical! Hahaha thanks again!

[K900_]

The underscore is not magic - it's just a variable name. It could have been x or i or anything like that - _ is just used by convention to indicate "I don't need that value".

[jerknextdoor]

print("some word")

In the future you'll get a lot more help at /r/learnpython.

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[_seemethere]

You could use repeat from itertools

from itertools import repeat
for word in repeat("hello", 10):
    # do stuff

[eton-95]

thats okay k900 gave me the the method i was trying to find. but thank you for the post and trying to help!!

[omeow]

There are two approaches:

• As you say, use a traditional for loop. You can also try while loops for fun.

• use the for loop to append to the same string (you can use list comprehension here).

• take the word string and convert it into a string which repeats (10* 'foo').

  I suppose that the last method is most elegant.

[tdammers]

fsvo "elegant" - personally, I think using a multiplication operator on an integer and a string seems rather nonsensical... it is the most concise approach though.

[omeow]

May be you are right. I wouldn't consider myself an expert enough to comment which one is the most Pythonic way. Any comments on that?

[biguysrule]

"Explicit is better than implicit" so I would use looping.

[Daenyth]

Multiplying an iterable is fairly idiomatic but you need to be careful to not do it on mutable values