'Continue' Function in Python-CodePudding

I have a question about the 'continue' function in Python. I wolud like to skip 'Antarctic' in the following list:

continents = = ["Afrika", "Antarktic", "Asien", "Australia", "Europe", "North America", "South America"]

I thought about using the for loop in combination with the 'continue' function but it doesn't work. Maybe I have to transform the list in another format or so.

This was my first guess.

for i in continents:
    if i == 1:
        continue
    print(i)

Thanks in advance.

CodePudding user response：

Given your sample list:

continents = [
  "Afrika",
  "Antarktic",
  "Asien",
  "Australia",
  "Europe",
  "North America",
  "South America",
]

You are iterating through this list, so i is the value of each string as you're going along:

for i in continents:  # i: str

So at this point, you just need to compare each string to your value to skip it:

  if i == "Antarktic":
    continue

CodePudding user response：

Having the list as:

continents = [
    "Afrika",
    "Antarktic",
    "Asien",
    "Australia",
    "Europe",
    "North America",
    "South America",
]

These are two of the many approaches that work:

for el in continents:
    if el == "Antarktic":
        continue
    print(el)

for i, el in enumerate(continents):
    if i == 1:
        continue
    print(i, el)

Also, continue is a statement and not a function. You can read more about it here.

CodePudding user response：

1.First of all the assignment of values in list will give error. == is used for checking equal condition. use = for assignment.

continents = ["Afrika", "Antarktic", "Asien", "Australia", "Europe", "North America", "South America"]

for i in continents:

It symbolize that you are iterating over values not indices so according to above for loop the if condn will never met. Two solution for this.

     `
       for i in continents:
           if i == "Antarktic:
              continue 
           print(i)
     `

     `
      for i in range(len(continents)):
          if i ==1:
             continue
          print(i)
     `

CodePudding user response：

If I am not wrong, you want to skip the print function, if the value is equals to "Antarctica".

continents = [
    "Afrika",
    "Antarctica",
    "Asien",
    "Australia",
    "Europe",
    "North America",
    "South America",
]

# If want to skip based on the value, use below code
for i in continents:
    if i == "Antarctica":
        continue
    else:
        print(i)

# If want to skip based on the index, use below code
for i in continents:
    if continents.index(i) == 1 :
        continue
    else:
        print(i)

but this is not the perfect scenario for using "continue", anyway it will work.