Have you noticed that a while loop has a condition like a if statement? No? Oh dear….

A loop will run while the condition is true. The second the loop becomes false it will stop.

x = 10
while x > 0:
    print x
    x = x - 1

This loop will start at 10 and stop at 0. The condition, x>0, will be true initially. As the loop runs x will decrease by one until x is no longer bigger than 0. Try the above code to see just how amazing a computer can look when counting backwards!

Change the above code so it will stop when it gets to 5.