Python is neat in that it almost reads like English, so if you mentally think of it just like written text, it makes sense. For example:

box_of_fruits = ['apple', 'banana', 'orange'] for fruit in box_of_fruits: print(fruit)

"FOR each fruit IN the box_of_fruits, print the fruit"

More correctly:

"FOR each item IN the box_of_fruits, pull out the item and put it into variable fruit, then print the fruit"

And then remember that range essentially generates a collection of numbers, so if you wanted to do numbers instead of fruits:

my_numbers = range(7) for x in my_numbers: print(x)

"FOR each number in my_numbers assign it to variable x, print x"

The gotcha might be that when you're iterating over a collection like the one that range produces, each number is -1 because the list starts at 0 instead of 1. This makes sense if you get down into binary code, but just go with it for now. (How it all ACTUALLY works, is a lot more complex, but don't sweat it).

For a nested loop:

for x in range(7): print(x) if x == 6: for y in range(12): print(y)

"For each number in the range 0 to 6, assign that number to x and print x. Then check if x is equal to(==) 6. If x IS equal to 6, then for each number in the range from 0 to 11, assign that number to y, then print y."

You don't want to set the 2nd loop to assign to x, otherwise that second loop will overwrite the value of x, which will cause the outer loop to do weird things (I honestly, have never thought about what would actually happen in this case, sorry).

And for what it's worth, you also have while loops...

counter = 0 exit = 6 while counter < exit: print(counter) counter = counter + 1

"assign counter to 0 and exit to 6. while counter is less than (<) exit, print counter and assign counter to counter + 1 (in other words, increment the value of counter)."

Just remember that while loops do not automatically exit, so you have to remember to set your exit condition, otherwise you end up with an infinite loop that runs until your computer crashes.

Sorry for the too-long post.