breaking out of nested loop

[rbt]

Thanks guys... that works great. Now I understand why sometimes logic
such as 'while not true' is used ;)

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 10:51 -0400, Peter Hansen wrote:
> rbt wrote:
> > What is the appropriate way to break out of this while loop if the for
> > loop finds a match?
> 
> Define a flag first:
> 
> keepGoing = True
> 
> > while 1:
> while keepGoing:
> 
> >     for x in xrange(len(group)):
> >         try:        
> ...
> >             if match == target:
> >                 print "Collision!!!"
> >                 print make_string
> 
> Set the flag here, then do the break:
>                    keepGoing = False
> 
> >                 break
> 
> Tada...
> 
> -Peter