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THE JUMP STATEMENTS

Sometimes, there is a situation when the control of the program needs to be transferred out of
the loop body, even if all the values of the iterations of the loop have not been completed. For this
purpose, jump statements are used in Python. Python offers two jump statements—break and
continue, which are used within loops.

THE BREAK STATEMENT

The break statement is used for exiting the program A loop repeatedly executes a block
control out of the loop. The break statement stops of code, just as a flock of Starlings
the execution of the loop and program flow continues (birds) repeatedly adjusts their
to the statement after the loop. A single break formation.
statement will break out of only one loop.

Syntax:
break
Program 8: To print first 12 whole numbers. Stop printing if number 7 is encountered.

Program8.py
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#Program to show the use of the break statement in the for loop
for number in range(0, 12):
if(number == 7):
break
print('Number is:', number)
print('Out of loop')

On executing the above program, you will get the following output:

Output

Number is: 0
Number is: 1
Number is: 2
Number is: 3
Number is: 4
Number is: 5
Number is: 6
Out of loop

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