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/a696624...

and in the context of discussing do/while loops and assignments in conditionals:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6da848f...

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&gro...

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.