the_count = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
fruits = ["apples", "oranges", "pears", "apricots"]
change = [1, "pennies", 2, "dimes", 3, "quarters"]

# This first kind of for loop goes through a list

for number in the_count:
    print "This is count %d" % number

# same as above

for fruit in fruits:
    print "A fruit of type: %s" % fruit

# also we can go through mixed lists too
# notice we hav to use %r since we don't know what's in it

for i in change:
    print "I got %r" % i

# we can also build lists, first start with an empty one
elements = []

# then use the range function to do 0 to 5 counts
for i in range(0, 6):
    print "Adding %d to the list." % i
    # append is a function that list understand
    elements.append(i)

# now we can print them out too
for i in elements:
    print "Elements was: %d" % i

