On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 10:44, Steve Holden wrote: > Daniel Schüle wrote: > >>>i=2 > >>>lst=[] > >>>while i<1000: > >>> i**=2 > >>> lst.append(i) > >>> > >> > > > > unless I am missing something obvious, I can not see why the loop should > > not terminate > > In that case, kindly explain how the condition i<1000 can become false > when it starts at 2 and never changes! [In other words: you *are* > missing something obvious]. > > Don't you have an interpreter you could run the code in to verify that > it does indeed loop interminably? You seem to be assuming that the > expression i**2 changes the value of i. It doesn't.
Note that the OP wrote i**=2, not i**2. -Carsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
