How to stop a while loop. A quiz from SoloLearn

Question

I recreated this code from a quiz, but in the Code Playground I get a complete different answer then what the "correct answer" was.

Why does the n//i not change and stop the loop?
https://code.sololearn.com/cFOcZ4h871D4

Answer 1

tebkanlo idk why it doesn't work, but if you replace "while cond == 1:" woth "while n//i == 1:" it works fine

Answer 2

And it is a infinite loop because you are not changing the value of cond so it remains an infinite loop as cond==1 true.

Answer 3

Not sure what the code is trying to achieve, but here is an example of stopping a while loop through changing the condition as per Zatch bell suggestion.

n, i, cont = 10, 10, 0
cond = (n//i) # I simplified it with this variable

while ( (cond !=5) ):
i=i-1
cond +=1
cont = cont+1
print(f"after step {cont}\n i = {i}\n condition is {cond}")

Answer 4

You can use break statement to stop a loop.

Answer 5

🔥EACY🔥 that's odd, Idk why the other day didn't work.. even if it was written as you say and how was in the quiz (without the variable cond) 🤔😅

Thanks you all🙏
I'll try update my sololearn I guess

Answer 6

Zatch bell I wanted to know how the quiz should have been written in order to work as the creator expected

Why is a break needed when (as the comment out print can show) the i changes?
The output is still a remainder 1, even when i=0 , shouldn't the condition change too with the iterations?

BTW at the beginning it was written as
"while n//i == 1:"

Answer 7

Use word break