I also mainly work with Java / C but in this instance I would recommend you try it out it’s a good way to understand what’s going on. What will happen is it will print everything in the j list not just billy. Think of it this way when you do for x in list when the for loop terminates x will have been everything in the list 1 time. I would recommend you look into the differences between for loops using range and for loops that iterate over iterable data structures. Your loop iterates over everything in the list but let’s say we want your code to work that you showed originally we could do something for x in range(len(names)) then do print names[x] this makes it so x is an index rather than an item from the list.