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The Continue Statement

The continue statement is used inside loops. The continue statement skips the current iteration of a loop
and jumps to the beginning of the next iteration. It means when a continue statement is encountered

inside a loop, control of the program jumps to the beginning of the loop for next iteration, skipping the
execution of rest of the statements of the loop for the current iteration.

Syntax:

#loop statements

continue

#the code to be skipped
Program 8: To demonstrate the use of the continue statement in a loop

Program8.py

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#Program to show the use of the continue statement
for number in range(0, 12):
if(number == 8):
continue
print('Number is:', number)
print('Out of loop')

On running the program, we 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
Number is: 7
Number is: 9
Number is: 10
Number is: 11
Out of loop

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