Break and Continue in Python
The use of break and continue in Python
• In Python, break and continue statements can
alter the flow of a normal loop.
• Loops iterate over a block of code until the
test expression is false
• but sometimes we wish to terminate the
current iteration or even the whole loop
without checking test expression.
• The break and continue statements are used
in these cases.
Python break statement
• The break statement terminates the loop
containing it.
• Control of the program flows to the statement
immediately after the body of the loop.
• If the break statement is inside a nested loop
(loop inside another loop), the break statement
will terminate the innermost loop.
• Syntax of break
break
Flowchart of break
working of break statement
Example: Python break
• # Use of break statement inside the loop
• for val in "string":
• if val == "i":
• break
• print(val)
• print("The end")
Python continue statement
• The continue statement is used to skip the rest
of the code inside a loop for the current
iteration only.
• Loop does not terminate but continues on
with the next iteration.
• Syntax of Continue
• continue
Flowchart of continue
working of the continue statement in for and
while loop is shown below.
Example: Python continue
• for val in "string":
• if val == "i":
• continue
• print(val)
• print("The end")
Pass statement in Python
• In Python, pass is a null statement.
• The interpreter does not ignore a pass statement,
but nothing happens and the statement results
into no operation.
• The pass statement is useful when you don’t write
the implementation of a function but you want to
implement it in the future.
So, to avoid compilation errors, you can use
the pass statement.
Working
Syntax
pass
Writing a function with no body
• def addition(num1, num2):
• # Implementation will go here
• pass # Pass statement
• addition(2, 2)
Ignoring an if statement implementation
• def display(number):
•
• if number is 2:
• pass # Pass statement
• else:
• print ("Number: ", number)
•
• display(2)
• display(3)
•Examples
The working example using break
statement is as shown below:
• my_list = ['Siya', 'Tiya', 'Guru', 'Daksh', 'Riya', 'Guru']
• for i in range(len(my_list)):
• print(my_list[i])
• if my_list[i] == 'Guru':
• print('Found the name Guru')
• break
• print('After break statement')
• print('Loop is Terminated')
Example: Break statement inside while-loop
my_list = ['Siya', 'Tiya', 'Guru', 'Daksh', 'Riya', 'Guru']
• i=0
• while True:
• print(my_list[i])
• if (my_list[i] == 'Guru'):
• print('Found the name Guru')
• break
• print('After break statement')
• i += 1
• print('After while-loop exit')
Example: Break Statement inside nested loops
• for i in range(4):
• for j in range(4):
• if j==2:
• break
• print("The number is ",i,j);
Example : Continue inside for-loop
• for i in range(10):
• if i == 7:
• continue
• print("The Number is :" , i)
Example : Continue inside while-loop
• i=0
• while i <= 10:
• if i == 7:
• i += 1
• continue
• print("The Number is :" , i)
• i += 1
Example: pass statement inside a function
• def my_func():
• print('pass inside function')
• pass
• my_func()
