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Re: breaking out of outer loops

From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: breaking out of outer loops
Date 2016-03-07 16:17 -0700
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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.

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breaking out of outer loops Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-07 18:09 -0500
  Re: breaking out of outer loops Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 16:17 -0700
    Re: breaking out of outer loops Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-07 18:21 -0500
      Re: breaking out of outer loops Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2016-03-07 15:42 -0800
      Re: breaking out of outer loops Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 10:49 +1100
      Re: breaking out of outer loops Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-03-07 21:54 -0500
  Re: breaking out of outer loops Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-03-07 23:29 +0000
    Re: breaking out of outer loops Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-07 18:40 -0500
  Re: breaking out of outer loops Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 10:47 +1100
  Re: breaking out of outer loops Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-07 19:02 -0500
    Re: breaking out of outer loops Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 11:08 +1100
      Re: breaking out of outer loops Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-07 19:13 -0500
        Re: breaking out of outer loops Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 19:21 -0500
  Re: breaking out of outer loops Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-08 00:36 +0000
  Re: breaking out of outer loops Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-08 03:45 +0000

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