Continue statement is helpful when you want to stop the current iteration in a loop based on a condition. i.e if a condition is true, then stop the current loop iteration and go to the next iteration.
Look at the code snippet below. If the value of the counter is equal to 2 then that iteration will not print the value of counter, and it will go on to the next iteration
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# Creating a counter counter=1 # Run while condition is true while counter < 5: if(counter==2): counter += 1 # Exit the current iteration continue print(counter) else: print(counter) counter += 1 |
Sample Output:
Consider another example of a nested loop. Here, the continue statement will stop that inner loop where character ‘b’ is encountered.
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# Another example of continue statement # Creating sample objects sampleList=[10,20,30,40] sampleTuple=['a','b','c','d'] # Nested for loop for multiple iterators for numIterator in sampleList: for charIterator in sampleTuple: # Exit the current iteration if 'a' is encounterd if(charIterator=='b'): continue print(numIterator, '--', charIterator) |
Sample Output:
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