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Python Introducing Lists Meet Lists Creation

Anthony Grodowski
Anthony Grodowski
4,902 Points

What "iterable" means?

I'm not excatly sure what does it mean in programming languages

4 Answers

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey there.

In short, it means to have an object (i.e. a String) that you can 'see' and 'go to' each piece of it. So, if you had the String "Hello World!", and you were to iterate over it, you would go "H" and then "e" and then "l" and so on.

Have a look at this definition.

Hope that helps. :) :dizzy:

You can go over item by item

It is like going through a list item by item.

simply it means it can be used in iteration,,,,, e.g in loops