multiple breaks

[TP]

Hi everybody,

Several means to escape a nested loop are given here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/189645/how-to-break-out-of-multiple-loops-in-python

According to this page, the best way is to modify the loop by affecting the
variables that are tested in the loops. Otherwise, use exception:

"If, for some reason, the terminating conditions can't be worked out,
exceptions are a fall-back plan."

In the following example, is this possible to affect the two iterators to
escape the two loops once one "j" has been printed:

for i in range(5):
    for j in range(i):
       print j
       # I would type "break 2" in shell bash
       # In C, I would set j=i-1 and i=4
       # In Python, is this possible to affect the two iterators?

Or the only means is to use exception?

Thanks in advance

Julien

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