Continue statement
A continue statement skips the remainder of the current loop iteration and proceeds to the loop’s next control step.
A Pythonic Adventure: From Python basics to a working web app
A continue statement skips the remaining statements in the current loop iteration and starts the next iteration.
- How it is used
- Handles canceled orders by restarting the main-menu loop for the next customer.
- How deep it goes
- Defines the iteration jump and demonstrates it inside a conditional, without exploring broader loop-control details.
- Examples
- Uses a coffee-shop main menu where customers confirm or cancel orders.
- What you can do after
- Apply continue in Python to skip canceled work and begin the next loop iteration.
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Get Programming: Learn to code with Python
continue is a Python control-flow statement that skips the remaining statements in the current loop iteration and proceeds to the next iteration.
- How it is used
- Skips unwanted loop cases so the main statements run only when the required conditions hold.
- How deep it goes
- Explains iteration control and contrasts nested conditionals, but stops short of implementation internals.
- Examples
- Uses a range-based loop that filters values by thresholds, divisibility, and powers of two.
- What you can do after
- Apply it in Python loops to skip selected iterations without prematurely ending the loop.
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Python How-To
A continue statement skips the remaining body of the current loop iteration and proceeds to the next iteration when one exists.
- How it is used
- Uses continue to skip nonqualifying loop items while keeping operations for qualifying items at a shallow indentation level.
- How deep it goes
- Explains control flow, filtering alternatives, and indentation trade-offs, but does not descend into interpreter internals.
- Examples
- Demonstrates numeric iteration and urgent-task processing with multiple operations guarded by complementary conditions.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Python for and while loops to bypass unnecessary operations for selected iterations.
Modern C
A continue statement is a C control-flow statement that skips the remainder of the current loop iteration and proceeds with the loop's next control check.
- How it is used
- Uses continue to skip an inappropriate iteration path while retaining the surrounding loop.
- How deep it goes
- Demonstrates continue operationally in a bounded for loop, but does not develop broader control-flow rules.
- Examples
- Illustrates continue while computing multiplicative inverses with the Heron approximation.
- What you can do after
- Apply it in C loop bodies to skip remaining work for selected iterations without terminating the loop.
Modern C, Third Edition
A continue statement skips the remaining body of the current loop iteration and proceeds with that loop's next iteration step.
- How it is used
- Controls loop flow by skipping the current iteration's remaining body while retaining the loop.
- How deep it goes
- Explains skipped statements and condition reevaluation through an inverse-approximation loop, without covering deeper implementation mechanics.
- Examples
- Uses an iterative multiplicative-inverse approximation that continues after values are moved to the correct side of 1.
- What you can do after
- Apply continue to skip selected loop-body work while allowing later iterations to proceed.
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Related concepts
- loopuses · A loop is a programming control-flow construct that repeatedly executes a block of instructions according to an iteration rule or continuation condition.
- keywordkind of · A keyword is a language-defined word or token with a predefined syntactic or semantic role, often restricted from use as an ordinary identifier.
- labelused by · A label is a named code location or construct that control-flow operations can reference as a target.
- code readabilityproduces · Code readability is the ease with which human readers can perceive and understand source code, including its structure and intent.
- break statementcontrasts with · A break statement terminates the nearest supported enclosing loop, switch, or similar control construct and transfers control to the following statement.
- filteringalternative to · Filtering is the operation of selecting or excluding items from data or a collection according to specified criteria.
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