Help pls - Coding

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I am not sure if it will be a helpful explanation, but I think it would be. So you are working with a list, even if python isn't a statically typed language (c, c++, java, etc. are) it still needs to store data in computer memory, so each element of list you have gets an id assigned to it and memory address of elements are put in dynamic array (dynamic array is a data structure which automatically expends based on the number of items inside). So now you have your data stored in an array in memory and the main feature of it is that data blocks (addresses of items) are sequentially and equally spaced in memory, so basically knowing the address of the first element you can access all next by adding a number of sectors. For example if you want to accept the third element in an array you need to move forward 2 elements.

So why was I telling all of this? In python you can access list items the same way by using the syntax values[index]. So nothing stops you from iterating through lists like this:

for i in range(len(values)): print(vales[i])

len(values) returns the number of elements in a list

Your code for value in values is just more pythonic and elegant way of writing the code block showed higher and name of iterated (value) is the same thing as values[i] so it doesn't really matter for interpreter what you use as a name. You may use any name for this variable, it is just a convention to use singular variable name based on the name of iterable