At 09:50 PM 10/27/2005, Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3 approximated: >what is Python's equivalent of 'last' in perl? > >if flag == 1: > break Yes. If flag is either 1 or 0 you may code it thus: if flag: break That's not the whole truth. Most types have a value that is seen as false in boolean expressions. They includes 0 '' None False [] (,) {}