Learn Python – 3.3: Break and Continue – When Enough Is Enough

Teaching Python When to Stop (or Skip Ahead) Loops are powerful. Sometimes too powerful. You’ve already seen that loops can repeat code many times — maybe even forever if you’re not careful.So Python gives you two simple tools to stay in control: break → stop the loop completely continue → skip the current round and […]

Learn Python – 3.2: While Loops – The Persistent One That Never Stops

Teaching Python to Repeat Until Something Changes For loops are polite. You tell them exactly how many times to repeat, and they do it.Five times? Five times.No more. No less. While loops are different. They don’t care about numbers.They care about conditions. A while loop says: “As long as this is true… keep going.” And […]

Learn Python – 3.1: For Loops – The Organized Repeater

Teaching Python How to Repeat Things Without Losing Count Loops are Python’s way of saying: “I’ve got this. Go get a coffee.” And for loops are the most polite, organized version of that. You use a for-loop when you already know how many times something should happen, or when you want to go through a […]

Learn Python – 3.0: Loops – Teaching Python to Repeat Without Complaining

Or: How to Stop Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Up until now, Python has been pretty obedient… but also a bit lazy. If you wanted something to happen five times, you had to write it five times.Ten times? Ten lines.A hundred times? …yeah, no thanks. Real programs don’t work like that. They don’t […]