"wesley chun" <wes...@gmail.com> wrote
as i mentioned in my other msg, you need another break statement that
is *not* in another loop. in your case, not in the for-loop. you need
a break statement somewhere within your while block (again, that's not
in any other loop). IOW, it should be indented at the same level as
the for-loop. it's up to you to determine the logic with which you
call your break, because if you just put it out there, your while will
only run at most once (or less than once).
And for completeness that would probably look like:
while True:
<do something>
for i in items:
if i > 10:
break # out of the for
else:
<do something>
if i > 10:
break # out of the while under the same conditions
But as Wesley said, for this specific case the Found / notFound
sentinel approach is nicer.
Although there is a school of thought says break statements
are only slightly less evil than goto and should be avoided if
possible. In that case you can do it by inverting the logic of
the tests:
i = 0
while i <= 10:
<do something>
for i in items:
if i <= 10:
<do something>
But, as usual with purist approaches the result might look
neater buts it is far less efficient and less flexible!
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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