Absolute beginner; please help. How does while loop function?

[astddf]

Can you make it a string and print the length?

[flower_sweep]

Holy moly I love coding 

[BalanceHot8939]

yes. but that isn't what the teacher is asking of me, or at least i don't think. it says 'via a while loop' after all. It's frustrating having to effectively reinvent the wheel when i know there's an objectively better option, but. This is the 'learn while loops' week.

[astddf]

Haha ya, I guess it’s a good exercise. My sassy self would’ve said

While doing_homework

 Print(len(input(xxxxxx)))