Skip Ahead in Loops With Python’s Continue Keyword
Until now, you’ve focused on how to use the continue statement effectively in your code. But have you ever wondered what Python actually does when it encounters continue inside a loop? This section pulls back the curtain to explore how Python parses and executes your code, helping you understand what’s really going on when your loops skip ahead.
Understanding the Official Documentation
As you learned earlier, continue only works inside a loop—it has no function outside a loop and will be flagged as a syntax error if it’s not used inside a loop. The official Python documentation for continue describes how this works:
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