Infinite loop

It’s possible to “break out” of the infinite loop with break as well:

while True:
    n = int(input())
    print('The input was:', n)
    if n == -1:
        break

print('End of the program!')

As soon as the inputted number is -1, the program stops the loop. We can break the loop at an appropriate time to stop the program from executing an unwanted thing for specific input.

Challenge

Given a sequence of integers, we are interested in how many times is the largest number in the sequence repeated.

The sequence is given as a stream of integers, and the sequence is terminated as soon as the inputted number is equal to 0. The rest of the input should be ignored.

The program should output a single integer - the number of times the maximum element in the sequence is repeated.

Explanation: The largest number is 5 and it appears 3 times before the sequence is terminated.