Alan Gauld wrote:
"Wayne Werner" <[email protected]> wrote You probably want to add a sentinel to break out of the outer loops too:
I don't think you want to break out of *any* of the loops. Otherwise you will skip testing combinations. In your example, the first time you set highscore and alignment, you break out of all three loops and only test the first triple x,y,z.
> 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 = newalignmentfound = True break
That's the equivalent of a return in the innermost loop. If you're looking for the *first* matching highscore, that's fine, but not if you want the biggest.
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