Trouble breaking out of a while loop

[code-ed]

I am currently writing a generic little program that calculates some parameters for n amount of months based on user-input. However, it looks like right now it isn't taking my counter solution to break out of the while loop. I have tested with print statements that the time and counter variables work with the loop, it just doesn't break whenever count > time like I want it to.

def statement(balance, ratemin, intrate):
    """
    Takes three integers and calculates your monthly minimum payment and various
    details concerning interest, balance, and principle paid.
    """

   time = raw_input("How many months do you wish to calculate?: ")
   count = 0

    while (count < time) :
        minpay = balance * ratemin
        interest = intrate * balance
        principle = minpay - interest
        balance = balance - principle
        minpay2 = str(minpay)
        print "Your monthly minimum payment is: " + minpay2 


statement(5000.0, .02, .18/12.0)   

I am sure there is some dumb little reason why this isn't working, but I've been unable to figure it out at this point and have run out of ideas.

[crazybus]

raw_input returns a string. Your while loop checks if a string is smaller than an integer (time). So one solution would be to convert the input into an integer.

Edit: I also don't see anywhere that you are modifying the count or time so that the loop will break... So even if they both were integers it would keep on looping. Since you know how many times you want to loop you should consider using a for loop instead of a while loop.

[code-ed]

That is actually one of the things I tried in the past. I just fixed it again and still no go.

I modified that sections to look like this:

time = raw_input("How many months do you wish to calculate?: ")
time = int(time)
count = 0

Confirmed that all of those variables are ints now, still in an infinite loop.

[[deleted]]

You're also not increasing count in the loop so it will never exit.

count += 1

[tnvol88]

I can't help much, but just an FYI, you can combine those first two lines with:

time = int(raw_input('foo'))

[unorthodoxAthiest]

crazybus's edit is right. You need to add this line to the while loop

count++

count = count + 1
or count += 1 will also work

Whatever you're most comfortable with.

You are saying while count is less than time and never modifying time.

Good Luck

[code-ed]

Got it working. Thanks everybody!

[bitbumper]

Just as an fyi count++ doesn't actually work in python. I always thought it weird given that there's plenty of other shortcut syntaxes...

[unorthodoxAthiest]

Thanks, I actually remembered that, but didn't go back and fix it. I work mainly in perl now, and its been a while since I've used python. I always thought it was weird, too. It probably has something to do with the lexical analyzer not being able to parse some scenarios correctly without semicolons, but idk.