While Loops, how do they work?

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I’m not new to python as a whole but I’m very bad at it however, I want to learn. I’ve tried to do some coding but I want to know what everything is actually doing rather than just reciting things online so if some of you could explain it to me as if I was like a baby that would make me really happy.

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I would say an LLM tool may be more helpful in this case, just for the reactivity of the response and for an experience more tailored to your needs.

That said, a while loop is concept related to control flow, they’re not a python exclusive feature and basically any programming language uses it in some form. I would say start with the wikipedia article about it to get some familiarity.

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While Loops, how do they work?

while condition:
    code

Run the code again and again while the condition is True.

For example:

cookies = 5

while cookies > 0:  # condition is cookies > 0
    print("Eating a cookie")
    cookies -= 1
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You also have the notion of infinite loop:

while True:
    print("ok")

You would need to have a condition in the body of the loop for it to brake out of it.

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Or use a break statement.

while True:
    print("ok")
    break

This prints “ok” just once. Usually, break follows an ‘if’ condition.