Incrementing a for loop, inside the loop

Question

Is it possible to increment a for loop inside of the loop in python 3?

for example:

for i in range(0, len(foo_list)):
    if foo_list[i] < bar
            


        

Answer 1

In your example as written i will be reset at each new iteration of the loop (which may seem a little counterintuitive), as seen here:

foo_list = [1, 2, 3]

for i in range(len(foo_list)):
    print('Before increment:', i)
    i += 4
    print('After increment', i)

>>>
Before increment: 0
After increment 4
Before increment: 1
After increment 5
Before increment: 2
After increment 6

continue is the standard/safe way to skip to the next single iteration of a loop, but it would be far more awkward to chain continues together than to just use a while loop as others suggested.