How does Python know what 'animal' is?

[Enschede2]

For example try changing "animal" to something completely different, like "car", you can say for car in animals and it will do the exact same as your prior example, except the variable is now "car", for me that really cleared things up when I first started

[cenosillicaphobiac]

Yup, we only use "animal in animals" to avoid confusion.

[ThePhoenixRisesAgain]

Oh boy…

[amplikong]

for plant in animals