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On 07/03/2016 23:09, Fillmore 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?
>
> For the record, here's a Perl script of mine I'm trying to port...there
> may be 'malformed' lines in a TSV file I'm parsing that are better
> discarded than fixed.
>

[snipped the code as I don't understand it]

Another interesting read that I've found 
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201203/breaking_out_of_two_loops_at_once.html

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence