Looping statement in python
In programming there will be some statements or group of statements which we want to execute continuously for more than one time, this is where loops comes in the picture.
Looping allow us to continuously execute particular statement or block of statement to more than one time.
Looping will check for the condition, and will continuously execute particular statement or block of statement until the condition get false or invalid.
Repeated execution of a set of statements is called as iteration.
This statements are executed in order except when a jump statements are encountered.
Following are the types of loops in python programming.
1. for loop
2. for-else loop
3. while loop
4. while-else loop
5. Nested loop
6. Infinite loop
for loop
In python for loop is used to iterate over a sequence like list,string, tuple etc and other iterable objects.
Iterating over a sequence is called as traversal.
We can also embed conditional statements in for loop.
Syntax
Here is the simple syntax for looping statement in python : for loop−
for iterator in iterable:
statement(s)
Here,
iterator is any variable used for traversing a sequence.
iterable is any sequence like string, list, tuple etc.
Explanation
If the logical expression consist of a sequence for eg. list then the first element in the list is evaluated first.
The iterating variable or iterator is assigned with first element from list, after this the code block is executed.
Again same steps are repeated until end of list is reached.
The range function
Python provides many built-in functions. The range function is one of the built-in function given by python.
It produces an iterable of arithmetic series.
It returns a sequence of numbers from start to stop by step.
The range function produces an iterator which traverse through sequence of integers from 0 to n-1.
We can typecast the range() to list() to get list of values from sequence.
Syntax
range(stop) -> range object range(start, stop[, step]) -> range object
Here,
start indicates starting value for range and it is optional
stop indicated ending value of range
step indicates the jump value for range and it is optional
Example of range()
""" Author : ITVoyagers (itvoyagers.in) Date :16th August 2020 Description : Program to show use of range function """ >>> range(7) range(0, 7) >>> range(1,7) range(1, 7) >>> list(range(7)) [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] >>> list(range(1,7)) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] >>> list(range(1,7,2)) [1, 3, 5]
Example of range function
""" Author : ITVoyagers (itvoyagers.in)
Date :16th August 2020
Description : Program to show use of range function in for loop """
print("Output of for loop using range()")
for m in list(range(10)):
print(m)
Output
Iterating by sequence index
One more way to iterate using for loop is through index of a sequnce.
Example of for loop with sequence index
""" Author : ITVoyagers (itvoyagers.in)
Date :16th August 2020
Description : Program to display multiplication table using for loop """
num=int(input("Enter number to display multiplication table"))
print("Table of",num)
for i in range(11):
print(num,'*',i,'=',num*i)
Output
Enter number to display multiplication table 7 Table of 7 7 * 0 = 0 7 * 1 = 7 7 * 2 = 14 7 * 3 = 21 7 * 4 = 28 7 * 5 = 35 7 * 6 = 42 7 * 7 = 49 7 * 8 = 56 7 * 9 = 63 7 * 10 = 70
Example of for loop with sequence index
""" Author : ITVoyagers (itvoyagers.in)
Date :16th August 2020
Description : Program to show use of for loop with sequence index """
print("Output of for loop using sequence(list) index")
words=['i','am','a','code']
print("List of words", words)
for index in range(len(words)):
print("Current word is",words[index])
Output
Example of for loop with sequence index
""" Author : ITVoyagers (itvoyagers.in)
Date :16th August 2020
Description : Program to show use of for loop with sequence index """
print("Output of for loop using sequence(list) index")
words=['i','am','a','code']
for m in words:
print(m)
print("Output of for loop using sequence(tuple) index")
h=(1,5,9,3,7)
for m in h:
print(m)
Output
Example of for loop with string
""" Author : ITVoyagers (itvoyagers.in)
Date :16th August 2020
Description : Program to show use of for loop with string """
print("Output of for loop using sequence(list) index")
for letter in 'itvoyagers':
print("Current letter is",letter)
Output
for-else loop
Python allows us to use else statement with loop statement.
In for loop we can use else statement.
In for loop if an else statement is used then the else block will be executed only if the for loop finishes normally that means for loop do not encounter break statement.
Example of for else loop with and without break statement
""" Author : ITVoyagers (itvoyagers.in)
Date :16th August 2020
Description : Program to show use of for loop with string """
num=[1,3,2,5,7,9,11,13]
print("Output without break statement")
print("---------------------------------------")
for n in num:
if n%2==0:
print("even number is present in list n")
else:
print("even numbers are not present in list n")
print("n")
print("Output with break statement")
print("---------------------------------------")
for n in num:
if n%2==0:
print("even number is present in list n")
break
else:
print("even numbers are not present in list n")
Output
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