Python/C3/Loops/English
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Hello Friends and Welcome to the tutorial on 'loops' in Python. |
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Learning objectives |
At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to,
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Pre-requisite slide |
Before beginning this tutorial,we would suggest you to complete the tutorial on "Getting started with for" and "Conditionals". |
Switch to the ipython terminal
ipython |
Let us start our ipython interpreter. |
i = 1
while i<10: print i*i i += 2 |
We shall first begin with the while loop. The while loop is used for repeated execution as long as a condition is True.
Let us print the squares of all the odd numbers less than 10, using the while loop. |
This loop prints the squares of the odd numbers below 10.
The while loop, repeatedly checks if the condition is true and executes the block of code within the loop, if it is. As with any other block in Python, the code within the while block is indented to the right by 4 spaces. Pause the video here, try out the following exercise and resume the video. | |
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Assignment 1 |
Write a while loop to print the squares of all the even
numbers below 10. |
Continue from paused state Switch to the terminal
i = 2 while i<10: print i*i i += 2 |
Switch to the terminal for solution. |
for n in range(1, 10, 2):
print n*n |
Let us now solve the same problem of printing the squares of all odd numbers less than 10, using the for loop. As we know, the for loop iterates over a list or any other sequential data type. So, we use the range function to get a list of odd numbers below 10, and then iterate over it and print the required stuff. |
We can see that we got the same output as before. Note that the lines of code are less.
Pause the video here, try out the following exercise and resume the video. | |
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Assignment 2 |
Write a for loop to print the squares of all the even
numbers below 10. |
Continue from paused state Switch to the terminal
for n in range(2, 10, 2): print n*n |
Switch to the terminal for solution. |
for n in range(2, 10, 2):
pass |
Let us now look at how to use the keywords, pass, break and continue.
As we already know, pass is just a syntactic filler. It is used for the sake of completion of blocks, that do not have any code within them. |
i = 1
while True: print i*i i += 2 if i<10: break |
break is used to break out of the innermost loop. The while loop to print the squares of all the odd numbers below 10, can be modified using the break statement, as follows |
for n in range(1, 10, 2):
if n%3 == 0: continue print n*n |
continue is used to skip execution of the rest of the loop on this iteration and continue to the end of this iteration.
Say, we wish to print the squares of all the odd numbers below 10, which are not multiples of 3, we would modify the for loop as follows. |
Pause the video here, try out the following exercise and resume the video. | |
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Assignment 3 |
Using the continue keyword modify the for loop, with the range(2, 10, 2), to print the squares of even numbers below 10, which are multiples of 4. (Do not modify the range function call.) |
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for n in range(2, 10, 2): if n%4: continue print n*n |
Switch to the terminal for solution. |
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Summary slide |
This brings us to the end of this tutorial. In this tutorial, we have learnt to,
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Self assessment questions slide |
Here are some self assessment questions for you to solve
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Solution of self assessment questions on slide |
And the answers,
:: for i in range(1, 4): print i break
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Acknowledgment slide |
Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and found it useful. Thank you! |