What's the meaning of this coding?

[Larz60+]

i keeps count of the number of iterations,
while number is one less after each iteration.

this could also be written as:

number = int(input('Please enter a number: '))
i = 1
while number:
    print(i)
    i += 1
    number -= 1

Output:
>>> number = int(input('Please enter a number: '))
Please enter a number: 5
>>> i = 1
>>> while number:
...     print(i)
...     i += 1
...     number -= 1
...
1
2
3
4
5
>>>