labeled break/continue

[faulkner]

On Jun 18, 12:35 am, Matt Chisholm <matt-pyt... at theory.org> wrote:
> Hi.  I was wondering if there had ever been an official decision on
> the idea of adding labeled break and continue functionality to Python.
>
> I've found a few places where the idea has come up, in the context of
> named code blocks:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/...
>
> and in the context of discussing do/while loops and assignments in
> conditionals:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/...
>
> Both of those discussions just kind of petered out or changed
> direction without any conclusion.
>
> There's also this Python 2.6 which has a similar syntax (although
> different semantics) to one of the syntaxes proposed in the first
> discussion above:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1714448&grou...
>
> I would be willing to help make a case and then write a PEP for
> labeled break and continue, as long as the community or the BDFL
> hasn't already decided against it.
>
> -matt
>
> P.S. My apologies about cross posting; python-ideas seems like a
> better place to post this, but PEP 1 says to post to python-list.

python-dev just mentioned that the BDFL vetoed it a while ago.
they're writing a PEP just to document why it was vetoed.