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question about for cycle

Ant antroy at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 06:39:43 EDT 2007 
On Sep 29, 11:04 am, "fdu.xia... at gmail.com" <fdu.xia... at gmail.com>
wrote:
...
> What should I do if I want the outer "for" cycle to continue or break ? If I
> put a "continue" or "break" in the inner cycle, it has no effect on the outer
> cycle.

I'd also be interested in the idiomatic solution to this one. I can
see a number of solutions, from the ugly:

for i in range(10):
    do_break = True
    for j in range(10):
       if j == 6:
          break
    else:
       do_break = False

    if do_break:
       break

This will break the outer loop if the inner loop exited with a break.

Using exceptions:

for i in range(10):
  try:
    for j in range(10):
       print i, j
       if j == 6:
          raise MyException
  except MyException, e:
    break # or continue or whatever.

Encapsulating in a function and using return:

def get_value():
  for i in range(10):
    for j in range(10):
       print i, j
       if j == 6:
          return fn(i, j)

I guess to an extent it would depend on the exact situation as to
which of these is more suitable. Are there any other recommended
solutions to this?

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Ant...
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