How does the Python’s range function work?

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A “for loop” in most, if not all, programming languages is a mechanism to run a piece of code more than once.

This code:

for i in range(5):
    print i

can be thought of working like this:

i = 0
print i
i = 1
print i
i = 2
print i
i = 3
print i
i = 4
print i

So you see, what happens is not that i gets the value 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 at the same time, but rather sequentially.

I assume that when you say “call a, it gives only 5”, you mean like this:

for i in range(5):
    a=i+1
print a

this will print the last value that a was given. Every time the loop iterates, the statement a=i+1 will overwrite the last value a had with the new value.

Code basically runs sequentially, from top to bottom, and a for loop is a way to make the code go back and something again, with a different value for one of the variables.

I hope this answered your question.

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