exiting a while loop
Larry Martell
larry.martell at gmail.com
Fri May 22 07:55:00 EDT 2020
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 7:51 AM John Yeadon via Python-list
<python-list at python.org> wrote:
>
> Am I unreasonable in expecting this code to exit when required?
>
>
> # Add up the powers of 2 starting with 2**0 until 2 million is met.
> n = 1
> target = 2000000
> sum = 0
>
> while True:
> x = 2 ** (n - 1)
> sum += x
> print(n, sum)
> if sum >= target:
> print("Target met.")
> exit
> n += 1
>
> print("\n", n, "terms are required.")
exit()
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