AI engineering glossary · Python core

What is continue?

continue: A statement that skips the rest of the current loop iteration and jumps to the next one. It helps to ignore unwanted items without nesting the rest of the body inside an if block.

Level: beginnerTopic: Python core

continue: an example

for n in range(5): if n % 2 == 0: continue; print(n) prints only 1 and 3.

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