continue and break frustration

[Rene Pijlman]

Glen Wheeler:
>a performance intensive program in python.
>  The problem I'm having is I want to use break and continue to get
>out from more than one level of loop.  If I set a variable and then
>check it my program will take too much of a performance hit.
>  Are there any alternatives people can think of?

Exception handling perhaps. Or old fashioned if-then-else, while etc.

But if the application is performance critical to the extent of one
variable set-and-test, I doubt that Python is the best choice.

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René Pijlman