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 store a counter that handles skipping items.

def skipper(item_list):
    skip_count = 0
    for item in item_list:
        if item == "XYZ":
            skip_count = 3
        else:
            if skip_count:
                skip_count -= 1
            else:
                # do_something()
                print item,

Example:

In [23]: item_list
Out[23]: ['a', 'b', 'XYZ', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g']

In [24]: skipper(item_list)
a b f g