Good python equivalent to C goto

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Sat Aug 16 17:29:13 EDT 2008


On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:20:52 +0200, Kurien Mathew <kmathew at envivio.fr> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Any suggestions on a good python equivalent for the following C code:
>
>while (loopCondition)
>{
>         if (condition1)
>                 goto next;
>         if (condition2)
>                 goto next;
>         if (condition3)
>                 goto next;
>         stmt1;
>         stmt2;
>next:
>         stmt3;
>         stmt4;
>  }
>
>

Goto isn't providing much value over `if´ in this example.  Python has
a pretty serviceable `if´ too:

    while loopCondition:
        if not (condition1 or condition2 or condition3):
            stmt1
            stmt2
        stmt3
        stmt4

Jean-Paul



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