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6 Python Loops

The document explains the use of while and for loops in programming, including how to control loop execution with break, continue, and else statements. It also describes the range() function for specifying the number of iterations in a loop. Additionally, it mentions nested loops, where an inner loop runs for each iteration of an outer loop.

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6 Python Loops

The document explains the use of while and for loops in programming, including how to control loop execution with break, continue, and else statements. It also describes the range() function for specifying the number of iterations in a loop. Additionally, it mentions nested loops, where an inner loop runs for each iteration of an outer loop.

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With the while loop we can execute a set of statements

as long as a condition is true.

Note: remember to increment i, or else the loop will continue forever.


With the break statement we can stop the loop even if
the while condition is true:
With the continue statement we can stop the current
iteration, and continue with the next:
With the else statement we can run a block of code
once when the condition no longer is true:
A for loop is used for iterating over a sequence (that is
either a list, a tuple, a dictionary, a set, or a string).
This is less like the for keyword in other programming
languages, and works more like an iterator method as
found in other object-orientated programming
languages.
With the for loop we can execute a set of statements,
once for each item in a list, tuple, set etc.
Even strings are iterable objects, they contain a sequence
of characters:
With the break statement we can stop the loop before
it has looped through all the items:
With the continue statement we can stop the current
iteration of the loop, and continue with the next:
• To loop through a set of code a specified number of
times, we can use the range() function
• The range() function returns a sequence of
numbers, starting from 0 by default, and
increments by 1 (by default), and ends at a
specified number.
Note that range(6) is not the values of 0 to 6, but the values
0 to 5.
The range() function defaults to 0 as a starting value, however
it is possible to specify the starting value by adding a
parameter: range(2, 6), which means values from 2 to 6 (but
not including 6):
The range() function defaults to increment the sequence by 1,
however it is possible to specify the increment value by adding
a third parameter: range(2, 30, 3):
The else keyword in a for loop specifies a block of code
to be executed when the loop is finished:
The else block will NOT be executed if the loop is stopped
by a break statement.
• A nested loop is a loop inside a loop.
• The "inner loop" will be executed one time for each
iteration of the "outer loop":

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