In this chapter, we explored Python’s looping statements as well as some concepts related to looping in Python. We looked at the while and for loop statements in depth, and we learned about their associated else clauses. We also studied the break and continue statements, which have meaning only inside loops, and met several built-in tools commonly used in for loops, including range, zip, map, and enumerate, although some of the details regarding their roles as iterables in Python 3.X were intentionally cut short.

In the next chapter, we continue the iteration story by discussing list comprehensions and the iteration protocol in Python—concepts strongly related to for loops. There, we’ll also give the rest of the picture behind the iterable tools we met here, such as range and zip, and study some of the subtleties of their operation. As always, though, before moving on let’s exercise what you’ve picked up here with a quiz.