I'll answer your question with a couple questions: Why do you expect to get the results you seem to expect?
What part of your code should repeat (and why)? A key factor in recognizing the difference between 'if' and 'while' is knowing what effect they have on the indented statements that follow them. Roger Christman Pennsylvania State University On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 Cai Gengyang wrote: > >Message: 38 >Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 04:54:21 -0800 (PST) >From: Cai Gengyang <gengyang...@gmail.com> >Subject: While, If, Count Statements >Message-ID: <b978e7cb-9acf-4aaa-8431-a5469f299...@googlegroups.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > >Input : > >count = 0 > >if count < 5: > print "Hello, I am an if statement and count is", count > >while count < 10: > print "Hello, I am a while and count is", count > count += 1 > >Output : > >Hello, I am an if statement and count is 0 >Hello, I am a while and count is 0 >Hello, I am a while and count is 1 >Hello, I am a while and count is 2 >Hello, I am a while and count is 3 >Hello, I am a while and count is 4 >Hello, I am a while and count is 5 >Hello, I am a while and count is 6 >Hello, I am a while and count is 7 >Hello, I am a while and count is 8 >Hello, I am a while and count is 9 > >The above input gives the output below. Why isn't the output instead : > >Hello, I am an if statement and count is 0 >Hello, I am a while and count is 0 >Hello, I am an if statement and count is 1 >Hello, I am a while and count is 1 >Hello, I am an if statement and count is 2 >Hello, I am a while and count is 2 >Hello, I am an if statement and count is 3 >Hello, I am a while and count is 3 >Hello, I am an if statement and count is 4 >Hello, I am a while and count is 4 >Hello, I am a while and count is 5 >Hello, I am a while and count is 6 >Hello, I am a while and count is 7 >Hello, I am a while and count is 8 >Hello, I am a while and count is 9 > > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
