Mistake in tutorial?

Question

The third exercise in the python 3 tutorial - while loops looks like this:

“How many numbers does this loop print?

i = 5
while true:
print(i)
i - 1 = i

if i <= 2:
print(break)

_”

The correct answer for this Is supposedly 3, but since the loop is set to run while i equals 5, wouldn’t it stop after the first cycle?

Answer 1

i is set to 5, then the loop runs until a break condition. It's while true, so is basically an infinite loop unless you break out of it.
= is an assignment, == is the comparison. You would need while i == 5 for the situation you describe

Answer 2

I see, thanks. This had me really confused...