[Tutor] Different between pass & continue

Christian Witts cwitts at compuscan.co.za
Tue May 18 14:17:28 CEST 2010


M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> I couldn't understand the difference between pass and continue 
> keywords, could you explain to me?
>
>
Taken from the docs at http://docs.python.org/tutorial/controlflow.html

The continue statement continues the next iteration of a loop for eg.
for line in file:
    if not line.strip():  # If the line is empty then
        continue

The pass statement does nothing. It can be used when a statement is 
required syntactically but the program requires no action. For example:

while True:
    pass  # Busy-wait for keyboard interrupt (Ctrl+C)

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Kind Regards,
Christian Witts




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