On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 7:12 PM, <asa32sd23 at gmail.com> wrote: > here is the code, i keep getting an error, "break outside loop". if it is > false just exit function > > > def d(idx): > if type(idx) != int: > break > > d('k') Not what you asked, but I believe pylint recommends using not isinstance instead of type !=.