How can I terminate my while loop?

Question

I’m trying to understand how to end my while loop after the inventory number gets printed out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

inventory = {"apples": 12, "bananas": 24, "cherries": 36, "dates": 48}
inventory_items = ["apples", "bananas", "cherries", "dates"]
print(inventory_items)

desired_fruit = input("Which fruit from the list above do you want to know the inventory to?")

while True:
chosen_fruit = False
for i in inventory:
if desired_fruit == i:
chosen_fruit = True

if chosen_fruit:
print(inventory[i])
else:
print("Error. Make sure to input one of the listed inventory items in lower case form. Thank you!")

Answer 1

I tried to put a break after print(inventory[i]) but it kept iterating and printing the inventory number until it reached an Execution Time Out

Answer 2

Thank you Jax and Avinesh !

Answer 3

Just put a break after the print statement.

Answer 4

Only a break after the print starement actually won’t help much. It’ll just infinitely print out your number. The reason behind this is that a break only breaks the loop you’re currently in. Because the print is in a for loop, it’ll break the for loop and not the while. The way I usually get around this, is setting a variable to True, changing the loop to run “while variable” rather than while True, and then set that variable to False once you want it to break.

https://code.sololearn.com/cG484zmuW6kx/?ref=app

Answer 5

Shane Sorry I did not see the for loop and thought that the break will do. You can start by saying something like x = True.

while x:
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when the condition is true and you print the value. Just do x = False and then break.