nested loops

[Oleg Leschov]

Could there be means of exiting nested loops in python?
something similar to labelled loops in perl..

I consider it irrating to have to make a flag for sole
purpose of checking it after loop if we need to break once more...

So maybe there should be an argument to break that is an int which is
a number of loops to break. So it would default to 1 (or whatever means
the current enclosing loop), not breaking any code...

Or maybe name the loops and give the loop name argument to break:
for i in list as outerloop:
while 1:
<do something>
if u:
continue
elif v:
continue outerloop
elif w:
break
elif x:
break outerloop
Or both.

Are there any cons to this proposal?

[Alexandre Fayolle]

Re: nested loops

Dans l'article <bm3sar$7e3$4@o casysi.rubberne t.net>, Oleg Leschov a écrit :[color=blue]
>
> Could there be means of exiting nested loops in python?[/color]

Raising a dedicated exception can do the trick.

class NestedLoopExit( Exception):
pass

def somefun(aList, aCond, anotherList):
try:
for e in eList:
for e2 in anotherList:
if aCond:
raise NestedLoopExit
else:
do_something_us eful()
except NestedLoopExit:
pass


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[anton muhin]

Re: nested loops

Oleg Leschov wrote:
[color=blue]
> Could there be means of exiting nested loops in python?
> something similar to labelled loops in perl..
>
> I consider it irrating to have to make a flag for sole
> purpose of checking it after loop if we need to break once more...
>
> So maybe there should be an argument to break that is an int which is
> a number of loops to break. So it would default to 1 (or whatever means
> the current enclosing loop), not breaking any code...
>
> Or maybe name the loops and give the loop name argument to break:
> for i in list as outerloop:
> while 1:
> <do something>
> if u:
> continue
> elif v:
> continue outerloop
> elif w:
> break
> elif x:
> break outerloop
> Or both.
>
> Are there any cons to this proposal?
>
>[/color]
Not an ideal solution, but still might be of interest:
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> for x in range(100):[/color][/color][/color]
.... print x
.... for y in range(100):
.... print '\t', y
.... if y == 40:
.... break
.... else:
.... continue
.... break
....

Actually, I'd rather abstract these complicated loops into a generator,
in my limited experience it's usually much simplier and clearer.

hth,
anton.

[Cameron Laird]

Re: nested loops

In article <slrnboa6hf.kf. alf@largo.fayau ffre.org>,
Alexandre Fayolle <alexandre.fayo lle@logilab.fr> wrote:[color=blue]
>Dans l'article <bm3sar$7e3$4@o casysi.rubberne t.net>, Oleg Leschov a écrit :[color=green]
>>
>> Could there be means of exiting nested loops in python?[/color]
>
>Raising a dedicated exception can do the trick.
>
>class NestedLoopExit( Exception):
> pass
>
>def somefun(aList, aCond, anotherList):
> try:
> for e in eList:
> for e2 in anotherList:
> if aCond:
> raise NestedLoopExit
> else:
> do_something_us eful()
> except NestedLoopExit:
> pass[/color]