How to break out of two nested for loops?

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Fri Jan 25 17:34:40 EST 2002


On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:28:30 -0800, Cliff Wells <logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net> wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:58:33 +0100
>Alex Martelli wrote:
>
>> "Laura Creighton" <lac at strakt.com> wrote in message
>> news:mailman.1011889735.22267.python-list at python.org...
>> > Last night I got to thinking that instead of _except_
>> > what I would like as the keyword is _discover_
>> 
>> Cool.  Or maybe 'expect' -- a mental-typo I do make
>> sometimes for 'except' when I am _expecting_ the
>> _exception_ to happen...:-).
>> 
>
>In that case, how about "unless" rather than "else" ?
>
>try:
>   MyFunction()
>expect DismalFailure:
>   print "Figures."
>unless:
>   print "It worked!"
>
Better yet, "otherwise:"

Regards,
Bengt Richter




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