Python Continue Statement | How works For, while Loop Example

Python Continue Statement is a loop control statement and mainly used to skip an iteration or ignore that condition. It works opposite to that of a break statement.

Where break statement is instead of terminating the loop and Continue Statement forces to execute the next iteration of the loop.

There are more loop control statements.

• Continue statement
• Break statement
• Pass statement

Syntax

 
continue

Examples:

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

1. Python continue statement using in for loop

Below is the implementation of the above idea:

If condition statement with for-loop to check and skip if “a” word found.

for val in "Data":
    if val == "a":
        continue
    print(val)

print("The end")

Output:

D
t
The end

How continue statement works in Loop

2. Python continue statement using in While loop

Using a while loop and if condition to skip a “2” number.

var = 5
while var > 0:
    var = var - 1
    if var == 2:
        continue
    print('Current variable value :', var)
print("Good bye!")

Output:

Current variable value : 4
Current variable value : 3
Current variable value : 1
Current variable value : 0
Good bye!

Do comment if you have any doubts and suggestions on this tutorial.

Note: This example (Project) is developed in PyCharm 2020.1 (Community Edition)
JRE: 1.8.0
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
macOS 10.15.4
Python 3.7
All Python Programs are in Python 3, so it may change its different from python 2 or upgraded versions.