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Break And Continue Statement In Python

In this article, we will discuss break and continue statements in Python.

Break Statement

A break statement is used inside the loop. The purpose of a break statement is to exit the loop. Let us work on an example: -

message = "This is the test message"

for character in message:
  if character == " ":
   break
  else :
   print("The value is ", character)

In the above example, we are following these steps: -

Once you run the above program, you will get the following output.

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Here the first space is found after the word ‘This’. After that break statement gets executed and skips the rest of the strings.

The continue statement skips the current iteration and jumps to the next iteration. Consider the following code: -

message = "This is the test message"

for character in message:
  if character == " ":
   continue
  else :
   print("The value is ", character)

Once you run the above code, you will get the following output: -

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In the above code, whenever space is found then iteration got skipped and the next iteration gets executed.

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