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Python

Posted by Luke Podnar
Luke Podnar
1,929 Points

Why won't my While Loop work

What I want it to do is to start counting up from 000000 by 1 and keep going but it won't work, Its not a indenting issue, I checked that.

num = 000000 while num: print(num) num += 1

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points

Since you're starting with a zero value, "num" will test as "falsey" so the loop will not start. You could start with 1 instead, or just use "while True:" to create a continuous loop.

Also, you only need one digit to represent zero. The extra zeros will be ignored.

If you want to always display a minimum of 6 digits, you can use formatting:

    print("{0:06}".format(num))