Breaking out of nested loops [duplicate]

Question

Is there an easier way to break out of nested loops than throwing an exception? (In Perl, you can give labels to each loop and at least continue an outer loop.)

for x in range(10):     for y in range(10):         print x*y         if x*y > 50:             "break both loops" 

I.e., is there a nicer way than:

class BreakIt(Exception): pass  try:     for x in range(10):         for y in range(10):             print x*y             if x*y > 50:                 raise BreakIt except BreakIt:     pass 

Answer 1

for x in xrange(10):     for y in xrange(10):         print x*y         if x*y > 50:             break     else:         continue  # only executed if the inner loop did NOT break     break  # only executed if the inner loop DID break 

The same works for deeper loops:

for x in xrange(10):     for y in xrange(10):         for z in xrange(10):             print x,y,z             if x*y*z == 30:                 break         else:             continue         break     else:         continue     break