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THE BREAK STATEMENT
The break statement is used to exit a loop before it has completed all its iterations. When Python

encounters break, it immediately stops the loop, exits it and move on to the code after the loop.
Program 14. To accept 5 even numbers from the user. If an odd number is entered, display a
message and exit the loop, showing how many even numbers are entered.

Program14.py

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count = 0
while count < 5:
num = int(input("Enter an even number: "))
if num % 2 != 0:
print("Odd number entered. Exiting.")
break # stop the loop if number is odd
count += 1
print("You entered",count,"even numbers.")

Output
Enter an even number: 2
Enter an even number: 6
Enter an even number: 8
Enter an even number: 5
Odd number entered. Exiting.
You entered 3 even numbers.

THE CONTINUE STATEMENT

The continue statement is used to skip the current iteration of the loop and move to the next one.
When Python encounters continue, it goes back to the beginning of the loop, without running the
rest of the code in that iteration.

Program 15. To print only odd numbers, skip any even number.
Program15.py

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for i in range(1, 11):
if i % 2 == 0:
continue # skip even numbers
print("Odd number:", i)
print("Out of for loop")

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