how to fix the infinite loop created by this code

Question

def counter():
counter = 0

while counter != 5:
print ("counter is less than 5")

Answer 1

The issue with your code is that the counter variable inside the counter() function is not being incremented. As a result, the while loop will never reach the condition where counter equals 5, leading to an infinite loop.

Here's the corrected version of your code that properly increments the counter and avoids the infinite loop:

def counter():
    counter = 0

    while counter != 5:
        print("counter is less than 5")
        counter += 1  # This increments the counter by 1

counter()

Explanation:

• The line counter += 1 increments the value of counter by 1 in each iteration of the loop.
• Once the value of counter reaches 5, the loop will exit and the function will end.

You can run this code, and it will print "counter is less than 5" five times before exiting the loop.