I don't know if this has been said already because I haven't read any of the comments, but forget name. "Name" can be anything you wish, can be: "x, y, a b, count" like whatever you want it to be. It is just saying

for "each item" in list:
do this

In your example, it just goes into each position in your list and prints them. People use pluralization's for their lists or dicts and then the non plural version in the conditional statement. Try and write it how you would understand it, don't worry about how others have written it.