On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:45:57PM +0100, MRAB wrote: > On 24/06/2013 23:35, Chris Angelico wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Tim Chase > ><python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > >>On 2013-06-25 07:38, Chris Angelico wrote: > >>>Python has no issues with breaking out of loops, and even has > >>>syntax specifically to complement it (the 'else:' clause). Use > >>>break/continue when appropriate. > >> > >>from minor_gripes import breaking_out_of_nested_loops_to_top_level > > > >True. There are times I do wish for a 'goto'. But if goto were > >implemented, I would also use it for jumping _into_ loops, and I'm not > >sure that's going to make the feature popular :) > > > I think a better way would be to label the outer loop somehow and then > break out of it by name.
Would say that procedure-scoped gotos are useful for more than manipulating loops indeed. Doubt if either will be in Python ever though. -- Göktuğ Kayaalp <goktug.kaya...@gmail.com> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
