On 2008-01-29, Jeremy Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Any elegant way of breaking out of the outer for loop than below, I
>> seem to have come across something, but it escapes me
>>
>> for i in outerLoop:
>> for j in innerLoop:
>> if condition:
>> break
>> else:
>> continue
>> break
>
> Perhaps Python needs a "continue N" or a "break N" statement :-)
>
> for i in outerLoop:
> for j in innerLoop:
> if condition:
> break 2
Just fake it with an exception
class LoopBreaker(Exception):
pass
try:
for i in outerLoop:
for j in innerLoop:
if condition:
raise LoopBreaker
except LoopBreaker:
pass
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