breaking out of outer loops

[Jeremy Sanders]

noemailplease0001 at gmail.com wrote:

> Any elegant way of breaking out of the outer for loop than below, I
> seem to have come across something, but it escapes me
> 
> for i in outerLoop:
>    for j in innerLoop:
>        if condition:
>           break
>    else:
>        continue
>     break

Perhaps Python needs a "continue N" or a "break N" statement :-)

for i in outerLoop:
  for j in innerLoop:
     if condition:
        break 2

Seeing as we can't have a goto :-)

Jeremy

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