Breaking Out
James Kew
james.kew at btinternet.com
Fri Aug 23 18:03:04 EDT 2002
"Bradley D. Larson" <blarson at crary.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1030131895.10485.python-list at python.org...
> I believe a cleaner method is:
>
> while x = y:
> blah
> blah
> blah
> if break_now:
> break
> blah
> blah
> blah
> if break_now:
> break
> blah
> blah
> blah
> [...]
> break # dont forget the last break!
That makes a conditional look like a loop -- not terribly expressive of
intent.
"Skip to the end" and "I WANT OUT" suggest throwing an exception to me...
--
James Kew
james.kew at btinternet.com
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