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

Since nobody has mentioned a while loop, I will:

item_list = ["a", "b", "XYZ", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g"]
i = 0
while i < len(item_list):
    item = item_list[i]
    if item == "XYZ":
        do_something()
        i += 3
    else:
        do_something_else()
    i += 1