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Lesson 9 of 14 · about 12 minutes · Stop a loop early; skip a round.

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Stop early with break

Two words change how a loop runs:

break stops the loop right now and jumps to the code after it
continue skips the rest of this round and starts the next one

To remember whether something happened inside a loop, use a flag: a bool that starts as False and becomes True when it happens. After the loop, check the flag.

Example

for n in range(1, 10):
    if n == 3:
        continue   # skip 3
    if n == 6:
        break      # stop at 6
    print(n)

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The secret number is 7 and the player gets 3 guesses. In the loop: if the guess is right, print Correct! 🎉, set found = True and break (so the program stops asking). If wrong, print Try again. After the loop, if nothing was found, print Out of guesses! It was 7.

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First guess right: stops asking
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Three wrong guesses reveal the number

Lesson notes (text version)

1. Stop early with break

Two words change how a loop runs:

break stops the loop right now and jumps to the code after it
continue skips the rest of this round and starts the next one

To remember whether something happened inside a loop, use a flag: a bool that starts as False and becomes True when it happens. After the loop, check the flag.

                for n in range(1, 10):
    if n == 3:
        continue   # skip 3
    if n == 6:
        break      # stop at 6
    print(n)