🎛️ Loop Control — Break and Continue

Two statements give you power to control exactly when loops stop or skip iterations.

🎯 Break Statement

`break` exits the loop immediately:

for i in range(10):
    if i == 5:
        break  # Exits loop when i is 5
    print(i)
# Output: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4

Real example: Search and exit

for number in [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12]:
    if number == 12:
        print("Found even number!")
        break
    print(f"Checking {number}")

💡 Continue Statement

`continue` skips the rest of the current iteration:

for i in range(5):
    if i == 2:
        continue  # Skips to next iteration
    print(i)
# Output: 0, 1, 3, 4

Real example: Skip unwanted items

for number in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]:
    if number % 2 == 0:
        continue  # Skip even numbers
    print(f"Odd: {number}")
# Output: Odd: 1, Odd: 3, Odd: 5

🎨 Practical Examples

Example 1: User menu with break

while True:
    choice = input("Enter 'quit' to exit: ")
    if choice == "quit":
        break
    print(f"You entered: {choice}")

Example 2: Filtering data with continue

# Process only valid scores
scores = [95, -5, 87, 100, -10, 88]
for score in scores:
    if score < 0:
        continue  # Skip invalid scores
    print(f"Valid score: {score}")

📊 Break vs Continue

🔑 Key Takeaways

🔗 What's Next?

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