Carsten Haese wrote: > 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. > Oops. Thanks :-)
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