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Abinaya V
Abinaya V

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looping in python

Loops are used to repeat a block of code multiple times.

Python has mainly 2 types of loops:

  1. for loop

  2. while loop

1.for Loop

   Used when the number of iterations is known.
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Example
input:

  for i in range(5):
     print(i)
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output:

  0
  1
  2
  3
  4
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2.while loop

Used when the condition should run until it becomes false.
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example
input:

  i = 1
  while i <= 5:
   print(i)
     i += 1
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output:

1
2
3
4
5
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