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Re: fun with nested loops

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On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Daniel <dalist0@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do you only ever have one top-level loop that you would be naming? If
> no, unfortunately not. The rough structure is several loops deep, and
> I need to break/continue/restart many of them.
> Continue is used more than break, because most of the time that I find
> some strange value, I'd just _continue_ a few levels up
> to restart the current measurements.
>

Ah well, was worth a try. Raising exceptions smells wrong for this,
but peppering your code with sentinel checks isn't much better. I
don't really know what would be a good solution to this... except
maybe this, which was proposed a few years ago and which I'd never
heard of until Google showed it to me just now:
http://entrian.com/goto/

ChrisA

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fun with nested loops Daniel <dalist0@gmail.com> - 2011-08-31 08:51 -0700
  Re: fun with nested loops aspineux <aspineux@gmail.com> - 2011-08-31 09:35 -0700
    Re: fun with nested loops Daniel <dalist0@gmail.com> - 2011-08-31 11:40 -0700
      Re: fun with nested loops Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-01 10:11 +1000
        Re: fun with nested loops Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-01 10:50 +1000
          Re: fun with nested loops Daniel <dalist0@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 07:05 -0700
            Re: fun with nested loops Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2011-09-01 16:57 +0200
            Re: fun with nested loops Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-09-01 14:40 -0400
            Re: fun with nested loops Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-02 11:04 +1000
  Re: fun with nested loops Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 04:13 +1000
    Re: fun with nested loops Daniel <dalist0@gmail.com> - 2011-08-31 12:07 -0700
      Re: fun with nested loops Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 05:15 +1000
        Re: fun with nested loops Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-01 10:18 +1000
  Re: fun with nested loops Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 12:02 -0700
    Re: fun with nested loops Daniel <dalist0@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 17:21 -0700

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