I dont get this

Question

i=0
while 1==1
print (i)
i=i+1
if i>=5:
print ("breaking")
break
print ("finished")
what i dont understand is why the loop breaks after printing 4. and why not 5

Answer 1

It's difficult ( pretty imossible ) to say, because your post don't reproduce the indentation of your code ^^
It could mean:

i=0
while 1==1
print (i)
i=i+1
if i>=5:
print ("breaking")
break
print ("finished")

As weel as:

i=0
while 1==1
print (i)
i=i+1
if i>=5:
print ("breaking")
break
print ("finished")

Or:

i=0
while 1==1
print (i)
i=i+1
if i>=5:
print ("breaking")
break
print ("finished")

And many other variations, with differents meanings ;) ( or indentations errors )... Indentation is extremly important thing in Python, it's a part of the language syntax. If you want to be helped, please clean copy paste your code ^^

Answer 2

because the print statement goes after the brake statement. The loop breaks before being able to print the 5.

Answer 3

lets go through each line..

i = 0 sets i to 0
while 1 == 1: (while true do the following)
print i ( prints value of i)
i = i + 1 (adds 1 to the previous i value and sets new value of i)
if i >=5: (checks to see if new val of i is greater or equal to 5 if not it sends it back through the loop if it meets the criteria when = 5 it goes through to the break)
print "breaking"
break(exits the loop)
print "finished"

So before it can even print the value 5 it exits the loop because when i goes from 4 to 5 it meets the requirements and continues into the if statement

Answer 4

dang ri is faster than me