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authorSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2012-08-12 19:13:38 (GMT)
committerSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2012-08-12 19:13:38 (GMT)
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Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" statement in the tutorial. Patch by Daniel Ellis.
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@@ -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: