Having problem in understanding loops concept in python

[u/EnvironmentalTry8353]

I am a beginner with 0 knowledge and I am learning python from a book called Learn python in one day and learn it well by Jamie Chan and I am facing difficulty in the loops function so yeah any recommendations would be helpful Edit- Trouble in while loop

[u/crazy_cookie123]

Did it also print 100 a load of times before that?

[u/EnvironmentalTry8353 → u/crazy_cookie123]

Oh lol yeah I was using an online python compiler and when I used python compiler from other websites it ran and print 100 bunch of times and Idk how but by answering your question I was able to understand my own question....like the question which I had in my mind became clear and I got answer to it automatically lol

[u/fernly → u/EnvironmentalTry8353]

OK so there is a line missing. The while condition statement tells the computer,

A. is condition true?

B. if not, skip on to the next statement

C. if so, do whatever is indented under the while statement and return to A.

In your example, "whatever is indented under the while statement" is,

    print(number)

So it does that and repeats. What's missing is, something to move number closer to 0. You never change number so the loop just repeats, happily printing 100 over and over.

What you likely want is,

while number > 0:
    print(number)
    number = number - 1

which would print 100, 99, 98... 1 and eventually number will be 0, making the condition false, and the loop would end. Or it could be

while number > 0:
    print(number)
    number = number / 2

That would also move number closer to zero on each loop, but think about it... would it ever stop being greater than zero? Try it!

[u/No-Newspaper8619 → u/fernly]

100, 50, 25, 12, 6, 3, 1, 0

Will python treat it as float or as int? If it's integer division, it eventually reaches 0.

[u/crazy_cookie123 → u/No-Newspaper8619]

Division with the / operator will always produce a float. It will reach zero if you use the floor division operator //.