Changing the number of iterations in a for loop

Question

I have code like this:

loopcount = 3
for i in range(1, loopcount)
   somestring = \'7\'
   newcount = int(somestring)
   loopcount = newcount

Answer 1

It looks like your premise is that you have a default number of times the loop should execute but an occasional condition where it's different. It might be better to use a while loop instead, but regardless you can just do:

if i == some_calculated_threshold:
    break

to drop out of the loop instead.