Python multi-level break and continue

Python multi-level break and continue

Posted Sep 1, 2022 12:42 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Python multi-level break and continue by jezuch
Parent article: Python multi-level break and continue

Splitting code into smaller functions is often good practice, but not always. I often find it clearer to have the whole inline, so it can be seen at a glance, instead of lots of small functions used only once. The latter is like reading a text that keeps jumping into footnotes!

As a contribution to the fun syntax bikeshedding, a language I was involved in implementing had a loop roughly like this:

while cond1
    while cond2
    ...
    // Want to break out of both loop levels?
    if satisfied
        break foundIt
   endwhile
endwhile foundIt
 

The break is a jump forward, so it makes sense the label is at the endwhile. Of course this wont work too well in Python that lacks a delimiter to mark the end of the loop, other than decreasing indentation.

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