loop limit question

Question

Hi

could someone please help me to understand something in PY?
Say I have the code:

l = []
for i in range(1,1000):
l.append(i)
if l[-1] > 98:
break

print(l)
will give me a list starting from 1 (which is what I want) but it stops at 99 and not at 98. I know I can limit in the range statement but I actually want to understand why the loop does not stop at 98 since 99 is in fact >98 (for another problem).

Cheers

Answer 1

why don't you break if i >= 98, then it stops at 98 itself.

Answer 2

break is executed only if the last element appended is greater than 98. Since 98 is not strictly greater than 98, it continues. once i become 99, it breaks. so at the end of the loop i has the value 99.

Answer 3

Thanks Ravi. Makes sense, since the if statement is below the iteration. Is there any way I can change the code to get a hard stop during an iteration?
Cheers

Answer 4

How embarrassing. X)
I thought I tried it without success but you are right, this does the trick