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Vivek Bhintade
Vivek Bhintade

Reputation: 383

How to limit for loop to print first few element from list in python?

How should i print the first 5 element from list using for loop in python. i created some thing is here. 

x= ['a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i']
for x in x:
   print x;

with this it just print all elements within list.but i wanted to print first 5 element from list.thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 25136

Answers (1)

TerryA
TerryA

Reputation: 59974

You can use slicing:

for i in x[:5]:
    print i

This will get the first five elements of a list, which you then iterate through and print each item.

It's also not recommended to do for x in x:, as you have just overwritten the list itself.

Finally, semi-colons aren't needed in python :).

Upvotes: 22

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