[Tutor] Continue Statement

[Alan Gauld]

On 16/12/13 14:12, Alina Campana wrote:

Please use plain text for emails. Rich text tends to mess up the 
indentation as you can see below. However via the web interface I was 
able to see what you did so...


> i = 0
> while (i < 10):
> if i == 5:
> continue
> print i
> i+=1
>
> Instead it seems to freeze after 4. The shell input symbol is blinking.

The continue jumps back to the start of the loop. But you have not
at that point incremented i so it is still 5, and remains 5 forever.
If you move the i += 1 line to the top of the loop it will work as you 
expect except you will print 1-10 instead of 0-9.

> Okay thank you people, I go now learn better english ^^

Your English is fine, no problem.


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