The Beginner's Guide to Python Continue Statement

Hello dear readers! Welcome back to another edition of our tutorial on Python. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be studying about the Python Continue Statement.

Python continue statement returns control to the beginning of the while loop. The Python continue statement rejects all the remaining statements in the current iteration of the loop and moves all control back to the top of the loop.

The continue statement can be used in both while and for loops.

Syntax

Following is the syntax to use a continue statement in Python -

continue

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Example

Following below is a very simple example -

#!/usr/bin/python

for letter in 'Python':     # First Example
   if letter == 'h':
      continue
   print 'Current Letter :', letter

var = 10                    # Second Example
while var > 0:              
   var = var -1
   if var == 5:
      continue
   print 'Current variable value :', var
print "Welcome to Web design tutorialz!"

Output

Below is the output of the above example -

Current Letter : P
Current Letter : y
Current Letter : t
Current Letter : o
Current Letter : n
Current variable value : 9
Current variable value : 8
Current variable value : 7
Current variable value : 6
Current variable value : 4
Current variable value : 3
Current variable value : 2
Current variable value : 1
Current variable value : 0
Welcome to Web design tutorialz!

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Alright guys! This is where we are rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we are going to be studying about the Python pass statement.

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