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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, jumping statements are used in Python. Python offers two jumping statements—
break and continue, which are used within the loop.
The break Statement
The break is a keyword in Python which is used for bringing the program control out of the loop.
The break statement halts the execution of a loop and program flow switches to the statement
after the loop. A single break statement will break out of only one loop.
Syntax:
#loop statement
break
Program 7: To demonstrate the use of the break statement in a loop.
Program7.py
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for number in range (0, 12):
if number == 7:
break
print('Number is:', number)
print('Out of loop')
On running 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
The continue Statement
The continue statement is used inside loops. 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.
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