Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Erik Max Francis <m...@alcyone.com> wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Erik Max Francis <m...@alcyone.com> wrote:
It's quite consistent on which control structures you can break out of --
it's the looping ones.
Plus functions.
No:
def f():
... break
...
File "<stdin>", line 2
SyntaxError: 'break' outside loop
Yes:
def f():
return
print("Won't happen")
"break out of" doesn't necessarily require the break keyword per se.
You can abort a function part way, same as you can abort a loop part
way.
Look back at the context. I was actually talking about the break keyword.
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