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

I'd probably write it out like this, personally:

xyz_i = item_list.index('XYZ')

do_something('XYZ') #or do_something(item_list[xyz_i]) but.. just save yourself the list lookup

for x in item_list[xyz_i+4:]:
    do_something_else(x)