continue — Easy Examples

Skips the rest of the current loop iteration and moves to the next

Skip an iteration

Using continue to skip certain items in a loop.

python

# Print only odd numbers
for i in range(10):
    if i % 2 == 0:
        continue
    print(i, end=" ")
print()

# Skip blank lines
lines = ["hello", "", "world", "", "python"]
for line in lines:
    if not line:
        continue
    print(line)

Expected Output

1 3 5 7 9 
hello
world
python

continue skips the rest of the current iteration and jumps to the next one. The loop itself keeps running.

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