Control Flow

Break and Continue

break exits a loop early, while continue skips to the next iteration.

continue skips the rest of the current iteration. The empty name is ignored, and the loop moves on to the next value.

Source

names = ["Ada", "", "Grace"]
for name in names:
    if not name:
        continue
    print(name)

Output

Ada
Grace

break exits the loop immediately. The value after stop is never processed because the loop has already ended.

Source

commands = ["load", "save", "stop", "delete"]
for command in commands:
    if command == "stop":
        break
    print(command)

Output

load
save

Notes

continue skips to the next loop iteration.
break exits the nearest enclosing loop immediately.
Prefer plain if/else when the loop does not need early skip or early stop behavior.

Run the complete example

Ada
Grace
load
save

Execution time appears here after you run the example.