continue and break frustration

[John Benson]

In reply to

  Message: 14
  Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:37:09 +1100
  From: Glen Wheeler <adsl5lcq at tpg.com.au>
  Subject: continue and break frustration
  To: python-list at python.org
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    Hello All.

    I've been coding in python for a reasonable amount of time now
  (coding in total for approx. 20 years) and am writing 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?

    Thanks,
    Glen
How about raising an exception that can't be caught inside the
try:...except:... you want to catch it? (Note: this rules out catchall
except:s inside.)