Why doesn't this loop break?

Question

Python noob; please explain why this loop doesn\'t exit.

for i in range(0,10):
  print \"Hello, World!\"
  if i == 5: i = 15
  print i
next

Answer 1

Because what you have done with range(0,10) is created an array of 10 elements like so:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

and you are going through each one.

In other programming languages, you are doing what is called a foreach loop.

Otherwise, do it another way.