Scope of python variable in for loop

Question

Heres the python code im having problems with:

for i in range (0,10):
    if i==5:
        i+=3
    print i

I expected the output to be:

Answer 1

Python's for loop simply loops over the provided sequence of values — think of it as "foreach". For this reason, modifying the variable has no effect on loop execution.

This is well described in the tutorial.