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94 CHAPTER 5 ■ CONDITIONALS, LOOPS, AND SOME OTHER STATEMENTS
send mail
wait one month
send mail
wait one month
send mail
wait one month
(...and so on)
But what if you wanted it to continue doing this until you stopped it? Basically, you want
something like this (again, pseudocode):
while we aren't stopped:
send mail
wait one month
Or, let’s take a simpler example. Let’s say that you want to print out all the numbers from
1 to 100. Again, you could do it the stupid way:
print 1
print 2
print 3
. . . and so on. But you didn’t start using Python because you wanted to do stupid things, right?
while Loops
In order to avoid the cumbersome code of the preceding example, it would be useful to be able
to do something like this:
x = 1
while x