For loop in range python

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Hi,
So I am trying to create a for loop that goes through a certain range, extracts all numbers one by one (n).
Each number that is extracted, it compares to x. so x=n and then checks if x returns a False or True.
Example:

x = range(1,5)
###go through range one by one, plug in x each time and check if output is False or True

I thought of using a for loop or list comprehension but couldn’t get it to work.
Thanks for the help

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what have you tried? You should go attempt the for loop, forget about list comprehension for now

4

You’re actually defining a list of numerals not a range. The assignment should be x = list(range(1,5))
This will create a list with the values 1, 2, 3, 4 .

To create a for loop that traverses the list the format is
for item in list:
statement 1 …

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x will loop through 1,2,3,4, with each number being sent through the check_boolean() function. Then the loop appends the results to a list.

def check_boolean(x):
    if x is True:
        result = 'x is True.'
        return result
    elif x is False:
        result = 'x is False.'
        return result
    else:
        result = 'x is not boolean.'
        return result

results=list()
for x in range(0,5):
    result = check_boolean(x)
    results.append(result)
print(results)

An alternative might be to feed the function a list that contains boolean values:

results=list()
test = [True,False,True,False,True]
for x in range(0,5):
    result = check_boolean(test[x])
    results.append(result)
print(results)
6

Just to clear a couple of things up before we close this thread…

In Python 2 (what these courses are based upon),

range() returns a list. Only Python 3 requires the list constructor since it returns an iterator, not a list.

What the OP (who is long gone, by the way) is (was) seeking was to do with equality, not whether the value is a boolean.

>>> def is_in_range(x):
    return x in range(1, 5)

>>> is_in_range(4)
True
>>> is_in_range(6)
False
>>>

The return value will be a boolean.

Recall that while there are only two member tokens in the bool class, there are infinitely many boolean expressions. We will want a function that can test them, as well.

>>> def is_boolean(x):
	return isinstance(x, bool)

>>> is_boolean(7 > 6)
True
>>> is_boolean(is_in_range(5))
True
>>>

@rumbold, please do not resurrect moribund topics (anything older than a week), especially when we cannot know if the OP is actively engaged or not.