Iterating over dictionaries using 'for' loops
I am a bit puzzled by the following code:
d = {'x': 1, 'y': 2, 'z': 3}
for key in d:
print (key, 'corresponds to', d[key])
What I don't understand is the key portion. How does Python recognize that it needs only to read the key from the dictionary? Is key a special word in Python? Or is it simply a variable?