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Ashwanicountry asked

Does Python understand languages like English, German or French?

Abhay Jajodia
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Abhay Jajodia answered

Python itself doesn't understand languages like English or German directly. Let's look at the code you're asking about:

languages = ["English", "German", "French"]

for language in languages:
    print(language)

In this example, you're simply working with strings—"English", "German", and "French"—which are just text in a list.

So, Python only interprets them as data stored in a list; it doesn't actually understand that "English" refers to the English language, "German" refers to the German language, and so on.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have more questions.

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