How to use while loop inside a function?

Question

I decide to modify the following while loop and use it inside a function so that the loop can take any value instead of 6.

i = 0
numbers = []
while i < 6:
    numbers.append(i)
    i += 1

I created the following script so that I can use the variable(or more specifically argument ) instead of 6 .

def numbers(limit):
    i = 0
    numbers = []
    
    while i < limit:
        numbers.append(i)
        i = i + 1
    print numbers

user_limit = raw_input("Give me a limit ")      
numbers(user_limit)

When I didn't use the raw_input() and simply put the arguments from the script it was working fine but now when I run it(in Microsoft Powershell) a cursor blinks continuously after the question in raw_input() is asked. Then i have to hit CTRL + C to abort it. Maybe the function is not getting called after raw_input().

Now it is giving a memory error like in the pic.

Solution

You need to convert user_limit to Int:

raw_input() return value is str and the statement is using i which is int

def numbers(limit):
    i = 0
    numbers = []

    while i < limit:
        numbers.append(i)
        i = i + 1
    print numbers

user_limit = int(raw_input("Give me a limit "))
numbers(user_limit)

Output:

Give me a limit 8
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]