[Tutor] While loop counter

[John Fouhy]

On 08/07/2008, David <david at abbottdavid.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to get a while loop that will execute 5 time then stop.

Hi David,

The standard pattern is like this:

i = 0
while i < 5:
    # the stuff you want to do goes here
    i = i + 1

Note that if you know exactly how many times you will execute your
loop, you should use a for loop instead:

for i in range(5):
    # the stuff you want to do goes here

HTH!

-- 
John.