How to use range() with while loop?

Question

I need to create an empty list Ask the user for any input 5 times Only add the input to the list if it does NOT already exist

I keep getting into an infinity loop instead of only 5 times.

That's my code:

MyList = []
maxLengthList = range(5)
while len(MyList) < maxLengthList:
    i = input("Enter a number to the list: ")
    if i not in MyList:
        MyList.append(i)
print("That's your numbers list")
print(MyList)

Answer 1

The proper usage of range is:

for x in range(start, end):
    print(x)

So in your case it would be:

# Using underscore here since you do not need the value for each loop
for _ in range(5):
    i = input("Enter a number to the list: ")
    if i not in MyList:
        MyList.append(i)

However, you could just set maxLengthList equal to 5 instead of range(5)