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

Question

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.

Answer 1

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 :).