[Tutor] Continue Statement

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On 12/16/2013 03:12 PM, Alina Campana wrote:
> Hello dear tutorlist,
> I feel terribly ashamed for my bad english...
> Yet I'll try to form my question:
> It is about the continue statement in python.I wrote this code
> i = 0while (i < 10):	if i == 5:		continue	print i	i+=1
> What i expected was an output like12346789
> Instead it seems to freeze after 4. The shell input symbol is blinking.
>
> I bet this is easy enough for pros but I really got my problem with understanding the reason why.
> Okay thank you people, I go now learn better english ^^ 		 	   		

Your english is as good as mine ;-)

In addition to what others has said:
There are many ways to do what you expected. The simplest one beeing to add a 
variable. In fact, you have to increment i before the test that may lead to 
"continue", else it is never incremented in case i=5; but you also need to keep 
i at its present value for the rest of the present pass in the loop. Example 
solution:

i = 0
while i < 10:
     i_for_this_pass = i
     i += 1

     if i_for_this_pass == 5:
         continue
     print i_for_this_pass

(Well, the variable name is a bit long, but you see what it means ;-)

Denis