[issue38640] while False: break => SyntaxError: 'break' outside loop

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset dcb338ea1b8f14e21dde3564658b9040df996349 by Miss Skeleton (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-38640: Allow break and continue in always false while loops (GH-16992) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dcb338ea1b8f14e21dde3564658b9040df996349 -

[issue38640] while False: break => SyntaxError: 'break' outside loop

Pablo Galindo Salgado added the comment: Thanks, Hugo Dupras for the report! :) -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue38640] while False: break => SyntaxError: 'break' outside loop

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +16519 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/16993 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue38640] while False: break => SyntaxError: 'break' outside loop

Pablo Galindo Salgado added the comment: New changeset 6c3e66a34b95fff07df0ad5086104dd637a091ce by Pablo Galindo in branch 'master': bpo-38640: Allow break and continue in always false while loops (GH-16992) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6c3e66a34b95fff07df0ad5086104dd637a091ce -

[issue38640] while False: break => SyntaxError: 'break' outside loop

Change by Pablo Galindo Salgado : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +16518 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/16992 ___ Python tracker __

[issue38640] while False: break => SyntaxError: 'break' outside loop

Change by Serhiy Storchaka : -- keywords: +3.8regression nosy: +pablogsal, serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-l

[issue38640] while False: break => SyntaxError: 'break' outside loop

New submission from Hugo Dupras : In python 3.8 the following code raises an exception, which was not the case with previous python. ``` while False: ... break ``` It raises the following exception: SyntaxError: 'break' outside loop. This `while False` loop was used to temporary disabl