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Python

Posted by Steven Tan
Steven Tan
260 Points

Infinite Loop question in Python Basics - how to solve?

So one of the questions for the Python Basics quizzes is something like:

"How do you use the while statement to do an infinite loop?"

While ___________:

I tried 1 == 1 as an answer, and it wouldn't accept.

It seems there could be more than one way to answer this, but this seemed like the simplest way to do it on the single line provided. What is the correct answer supposed to be?

2 Answers

andi mitre
STAFF
andi mitre
Treehouse Guest Teacher
andi mitre
andi mitre
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Steven,

You can create the infinite loop this way:

while True:
Chris Adamson
Chris Adamson
132,143 Points
Chris Adamson
Chris Adamson
132,143 Points

Alternatively you could do it with negative logic:

while not False: