How to conditionally skip number of iteration steps in a for loop in python?

Question

We have a list item_list,

item_list = [\"a\", \"b\", \"XYZ\", \"c\", \"d\", \"e\", \"f\", \"g\"]

We iterate over its items with a

Answer 1

Use an iterator:

$ cat t.py 
item_list = ["a", "b", "XYZ", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g"]

it = iter(item_list)
for item in it:
    if item == "XYZ":
       print item
       for _ in range(3):
           next(it, None)
    else:
        print item

This gives:

$ python t.py 
a
b
XYZ
f
g