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Iterations: Loop Idioms

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Below is code to find the smallest value from a list of values. One line has an error that will cause the code to not work as expected. Which line is it?:

python
smallest = None
print("Before:", smallest)
for itervar in [3, 41, 12, 9, 74, 15]:
    if smallest is None or itervar < smallest:
        smallest = itervar
        break
    print("Loop:", itervar, smallest)
print("Smallest:", smallest)

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