"Goto" statement in Python
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 10:35:20 EDT 2017
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 9:31 PM, alister <alister.ware at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I expect you could simulate most of these with a custom exception
> for example break from nested loop:
>
> class GoTo(Exception):
> pass
>
> try:
> for i in range(100):
> print i
> for j in range (50):
> print j
> if i*j>60:
> raise GoTo
> except GoTo:
> print "Exit Early"
> print "end of loop"
Or you could turn it into a function and "return". Or if you feel like
it, you could turn the nested loops into a generator, then iterate
over it and break when you need to. There are many things you CAN do,
but to the true goto-aficionado, none of them is as clean.
Personally, I can't remember the last time I yearned for "goto" in
Python, and the only times I've ever wished for it or used it in other
languages have been multi-loop breaks or "for...else" blocks. And
neither is very frequent.
ChrisA
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