Breaking Out

[Bengt Richter]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:03:04 +0100, "James Kew" <james.kew at btinternet.com> wrote:

>"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:
           ^-- s/b '=='
>>     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...
>
You could avoid indentation by specifying the full condition for each segment, e.g.,

    xycond = x==y # in case blahs change x or y
    if xycond:
        blah
        blah
        blah
    if xycond and not break_now:
        blah
        blah
        blah
    if xycond and not break_now_2:
        blah
        blah
        blah
        [...]

Not wonderful, but ...

Regards,
Bengt Richter