How do I understand functions of greater than> in continue loop?

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If val is greater than 5500, why it is printing smaller values?
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it gives different outputs after changing the location of print(val) functions.

What I have tried:

salary = [2000,4000, 5000,7000,8000,4500,3800]

for val in salary:
    if val > 5500:
        continue
    print(val)

Posted 18-Oct-22 7:17am

sunnyjohn

Updated 18-Oct-22 8:03am

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2022-10-18T07:30:00

Solution 1

Simple: if the condition is true, the continue statement is executed, and The rest of the loop body is not executed - the loop immediately goes round for another iteration on the next item in the collection.

Posted 18-Oct-22 7:30am

OriginalGriff

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sunnyjohn 18-Oct-22 13:35pm

If it's true... then it starts its iteration from the first element(2000) AND stops at the boundary (<5500)??

OriginalGriff 18-Oct-22 14:00pm

No, read what I said.
If it finds a value that gives a true result, it stops processing that value and moves to teh next.

Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2022-10-18T08:03:00

Solution 2

Your code prints every value that is not greater than 5500. It should be

Python

for val in salary:
    if val > 5500:
        print(val) # print all values greater than 5500

Posted 18-Oct-22 8:03am

Richard MacCutchan

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sunnyjohn 18-Oct-22 22:06pm

Thanks so much, Richard!! But, I wanted to understand how the continue statement is functioning.

Richard MacCutchan 19-Oct-22 2:55am

In your case you do not need a continue statement since it is implied after the end of the if statement. I guess you could change the test in your original code to be

if val <= 5500:
    continue

but that would really be rather pointless. The continue and break statements are there for situations where you need to skip back to the top, or break out of, a somewhat larger loop. See the description at 4. More Control Flow Tools — Python 3.10.8 documentation[^].