"Wayne Werner" <waynejwer...@gmail.com> wrote
You probably want to add a sentinel to break out of the outer loops too:
found = False
highscore = 0 alignment = somealignment for x in something and not found: for y in somethingelse and not found: for z in evenmoresomething: if x+y+z > highscore: highscore = x+y+z alignment = newalignment
found = True break HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor