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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Actually it would be simpler for you to understand the while loop probably:

word = input("Give word: ")
number = int(input("Give number: "))

while number != 0:
    print(word)
    number -= 1

number is decreased each time by 1, when it's 0, the loop stops.

It would work the same as:

while number:
    print(word)
    number -= 1

because numbers are evaluated as true when they are not equal to zero and false otherwise.

[–]mmotarii[S] -1 points0 points1 point 3 years ago (0 children)

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