Why doesn't exec(“break”) work inside a while loop

Question

As the question asks, why doesn\'t the below code work:

while True:
      exec(\"break\")

I am executing the above in pycharm via python 3.

Answer 1

exec function runs code inside a code and that means it runs out of nowhere! So, your while loop doesn't catch it. Your file is . exec runs on another file called . it doesn't recognize it where are you trying to break a loop where there is not a loop. So, your code is this:

while True:
    exec("break")

It should be like this:

while True:
    break