why no break N levels, as in other leading languages?

[John Wilson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aahz" <aahz at pythoncraft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: why no break N levels, as in other leading languages?


[snip]

> class BreakException(Exception):
>     pass
> 
> try:
>     for i in range(foo):
>         for j in range(bar):
>             for k in range(spam):
>                 if my_func():
>                     raise BreakException
> except BreakException:
>     pass

or

for i in range(foo):
    for j in range(bar):
        for k in range(spam):
            if my_func(): break
        else:
            continue
        break
    else:
        continue
    break

Personally I favour putting the loops in a method and using return.

John Wilson
The Wilson Partnership
http://www.wilson.co.uk