Add conditionals

The while loop that corrects the offset is a good start, but what if offset is negative? You can try to run the sample code on the right where offset is initialized to -6, but your sessions will be disconnected. The while loop will never stop running, because offset will be further decreased on every run. offset != 0 will never become False and the while loop continues forever.

Fix things by putting an if-else statement inside the while loop.

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Intermediate Python for Data Science

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Exercise instructions

Inside the while loop, replace offset = offset - 1 by an if-else statement:
- If offset > 0, you should decrease offset by 1.
- Else, you should increase offset by 1.
If you've coded things correctly, hitting Submit Answer should work this time.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Initialize offset
offset = -6

# Code the while loop
while offset != 0 :
    print("correcting...")
    offset = offset - 1
    print(offset)

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