""" Purpose: demonstrate the printing of a string of characters
"""

# get a string 
reply = input( "Enter text: " )

words = reply.split() # when you split(), you're processing a list. if you have one word, you have a list with
# only one element
# if you have target = text.split(), you will ALWAYS get a list back. when i just hit enter, words = [],
# an empty list

print()

print( words )
### print the characters in s, one by one

# one by one/ for each -> for loop!
# c/ch are common variable names for characters... don't use char as it's a keyword in many other languages

# if we loop through words instead of reply, we'll process word by word, not character by character

# for loop_variable in sequence : - python will automatically assign the loop_variable to a different item
# in the sequence. python handles this assignment for us, thank you python!
# the colon is a separator between the loop declaration and the code in the body of the for loop
for current_character in reply : # a string is a sequence of characters, so each time we run through
    # imagine there's an invisible statement here that says current_character = next character in reply
    # current_character is going to take on the next character in the string s
    # we'll process character by character only when we're looping through a string, like reply

    # print out current_character
    print( "current_character:", current_character )

print( "donezo" ) # for loop is over, no more indentation
#    print( "one more time" ) we can't start indenting after we unindent

# why do we split() in lickety_split and not here? in this, we want to process character by character, which is done by
# looping through a string. input() will always hand back a string, so if we want to do word by word we have
# to split() that string into a list first

# wherever a python statement is legal, any python statement is legal. you can have loops in loops in loops,
# this will increase the complexity in ways you can learn about in future CS classes

# don't name your loop variable the same thing as your sequence. you can only have 1 thing stored in each
# variable, don't overwrite things that you want to keep