exercise7/answer.py: break at 5 stops the loop — was continue the intended tool?

[dab00gieman]

In answers/exercise7/answer.py:

for num in range(10):
    if num == 5:
        break
    print(num)

This prints 0–4 and stops entirely; 6–9 never print. If the goal was "skip 5, keep going", continue was the right tool. Is "print everything up to 5, then stop" the intended demo of break, or should the canonical answer use continue so the file demonstrates both keywords?

[mgkvibez]

Actually the file answers this itself — break is the intended demo there, and continue already gets its own loop three lines later. The file is showing both keywords, not making the mistake:

for num in range(10):
    if num == 5:
        break
    print(num)          # 0 1 2 3 4 — stop entirely

for num in range(5):
    if num == 2:
        continue
    print(num)          # 0 1 3 4 — skip one, keep going

Plus a third variant further down (for nut in range(16): if nut % 2 == 0: continue — keep only odds), so continue is demonstrated twice. The break loop's comment-worthy property is precisely that 6–9 never print: break exits the whole loop, where continue would have kept running. "Skip 5, keep going" would be a third loop, not a correction of this one.

Two things worth adding as comments/short exercises rather than changing the code:

1. for/else. The file already demos it (for num in range(5): ... else: print("Loop finished successfully!")) — and the non-obvious rule is that break skips the else. Pairing the break loop with an else: that never fires would show why else means "no break happened", not "loop ran".
2. Nested loops. break/continue bind to the innermost loop; the for numb in range(1, 51) block with a while nested under it is an accidental (indentation-bugged) nesting demo — the nag loop is inside the for body, so it re-runs 50 times. Worth either dedenting it to a sibling loop or, better, keeping it as the nested-loop exercise once it's intentional.

So: canonical answer stays break; if you want "skip 5, keep going" taught explicitly, that's the continue loop with a comment saying exactly that.