Counter in this code

[Yoriz]

counter = 1 the variable named counter is assigned to point at an object that represents a 1.
while counter == 1: while the object assigned to counter is equal to a 1 continue to loop.
counter = 0 the variable named counter is assigned to point at an object that represents a 0.
Note: This will stop the above loop the above and only happens when if i == 5: evaluates to True.