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author | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-08-12 19:13:38 (GMT) |
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committer | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2012-08-12 19:13:38 (GMT) |
commit | b2d850248502ea3d76af42476661e40812986273 (patch) | |
tree | 43790b676e7b8917f646f43c899e509aadbb2bf6 /Doc/tutorial | |
parent | 2e64a0b6ff7a462c1c4d9089d9681993ff589b16 (diff) | |
parent | 1ef9caa2a19c6e4675f853be38f7db341e0ba3ec (diff) | |
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merge from 3.2
Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" statement in the tutorial. Patch by
Daniel Ellis.
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst index 902f2bd..3c0f88e 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst @@ -157,9 +157,6 @@ Later we will see more functions that return iterables and take iterables as arg The :keyword:`break` statement, like in C, breaks out of the smallest enclosing :keyword:`for` or :keyword:`while` loop. -The :keyword:`continue` statement, also borrowed from C, continues with the next -iteration of the loop. - Loop statements may have an ``else`` clause; it is executed when the loop terminates through exhaustion of the list (with :keyword:`for`) or when the condition becomes false (with :keyword:`while`), but not when the loop is @@ -194,6 +191,22 @@ when no exception occurs, and a loop's ``else`` clause runs when no ``break`` occurs. For more on the :keyword:`try` statement and exceptions, see :ref:`tut-handling`. +The :keyword:`continue` statement, also borrowed from C, continues with the next +iteration of the loop:: + + >>> for num in range(2, 10): + ... if x % 2 == 0: + ... print("Found an even number", num) + ... continue + ... print("Found a number", num) + Found an even number 2 + Found a number 3 + Found an even number 4 + Found a number 5 + Found an even number 6 + Found a number 7 + Found an even number 8 + Found a number 9 .. _tut-pass: |