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continue

control

Statement that skips the rest of the loop body and moves on to the next iteration.

Syntax

continue

Watch out in while loops: continue jumps straight back to the condition check, skipping everything below it — if you increment the counter after the continue, the loop hangs forever. In a for loop there's no such trap: the iterator advances to the next item on its own.

Examples

for i in range(10):
    if i % 2 == 0:
        continue
    print(i, end=" ")  # → 1 3 5 7 9

for x in [1, 0, 3, 0, 5]:
    if x == 0:
        continue  # пропустить ноль — деления на 0 не будет
    print(100 // x, end=" ")  # → 100 33 20

for ch in "hello world":
    if ch == " ":
        continue
    print(ch, end="")  # → helloworld

total = 0
for n in range(1, 11):
    if n % 3 == 0:
        continue
    total += n
print(total)  # → 37 — сумма 1..10 без кратных 3

See also

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