How to Loop Through the Characters of a Python String
This is going to be a quick guide where we walk through how we can extend our knowledge of looping in python and we see that the for in loop can also be used with strings.
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So if I have a string that contains a portion of the alphabet. I could say alphabet and inside of that put abcdef. 

alphebet = 'abcdef'

and if I want to loop through each one of those items a 4 in the loop allows me to access them just like they were in a collection because if you think about it a string is really just a collection of characters so it's almost like you can think about a string is a list in a sense. When it comes to iterating over it so I could think of the first element being the character a, the second one being the Character b and so on and so forth and so with that in mind it means that we can do something like 

for letter in alphabet:

and then I can simply print this out so I can say print letter just like this. 

print(letter)

And now if I run this you can see that it prints out each one of the elements exactly like how we walk through with the data collections.

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alphabet = 'abcdef'

for letter in alphabet:
  print(letter)