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Retry flag compared instead of assigned — Python debugging challenge | BugHunt

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Retry flag compared instead of assigned

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What it should do

attempts_until_success(n) retries until the nth attempt succeeds and returns the number of tries, so attempts_until_success(3) returns 3.

What goes wrong

attempts_until_success(3) never returns.

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Hints

This is an infinite loops bug

The tab freezes, nothing prints, and the loop condition never becomes false.

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