title: Python: trying to use 'count' to limit the amount of lines "print" will output
body: <p>I have a script that will walk a system directory, and get the files sizes in that directory. it then sorts by the file size(descending), takes two arguments.  The first arg is the system path and the second arg is an integer to limit the output to that integer count.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using a while loop to limit the print output but its getting stuck in a infinite loop.... obviously, something is wrong but i cant see it.</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/python
  
  import sys
  import os
  
  #Grab arguments 
  mydir = sys.argv[1]
  mycnt = sys.argv[2]
  
  print mydir 
  print mycnt
  #set base dir
  root_path = mydir
  
  
  fileSize = 0
  rootdir = mydir
  filedict = dict()
  count = 0
  
  for root, dirs, files in os.walk(rootdir):
      for file in files:
          filepath = os.path.join(root,file)
          filesize = fileSize + os.path.getsize(filepath)
          filedict[filepath] = filesize
  
  
  for key, value in sorted(filedict.iteritems(), key=lambda (key,val): (val,key), reverse=True):
      while (count &lt;= mycnt):
          print "(%8s)" "     (%-8s)" % (value, key)
          count += 1
      else:
          sys.exit()
  </code></pre>