What's the answer, python?
Computer Science
Level
1
What does the following Python code print out?
# python code start
answer = 0
while answer < answer:
answer = answer + 1
print answer
The answer is 0.
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1 solution
The body of the while loop never gets executed since 0 is not < 0. Therefore, answer remains unchanged.