How the value of iteration for while loop keeps incrementing without even initialising?

Question

def count(numbers):
numbers = sorted(numbers)
tot = 0

while numbers[tot] < 20:
tot += 1
return tot

This is solution of the exercise

Answer 1

Hi Swarntam!

Thanks for reaching out.

We use a while loop to iterate over a certain piece of code so long as the condition (in our case - to havenumbers[tot]< 20) is true. This means that the while loop will go through every element from numbers and augment the value of tot by 1 every time the loop encounters a value smaller than 20.

Hope this helps.
Best,
Martin

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