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Subject: Re: breaking out of outer loops
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On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I must be missing something simple because I can't find a way to break out
> of a nested loop in Python.
>
> Is there a way to label loops?

No, you can't break out of nested loops, apart from structuring your
code such that return does what you want.