Question

I have a written a loop for and if condition and I want to break to loop completely when if gets satisfied.

while count:
    i=0
    for line in read_record:
        #print str.strip(count[1:28])
        #print str.strip(read_record[i])
        if string.find(str.strip(read_record[i]),str.strip(count[1:28]))>0:
            code=str.strip(read_record[i+19])+str.strip(read_record[i+20])
            print code[25:]
            break

        i=i+1

So here if the if string.find condition gets satisfied I want to go to while loop flow. Please tell me what will be the best place to break and how should I modify the program so that once the if condition is satisfied I am out of the loop and start again with while loop.

Answer 1

Your code already does that. Though it is unclear why do you need nested loops and what are those magic numbers for. Here’s your code refactored a bit for readability:

while count: # while len(count) > 0 
    for i, record in enumerate(read_record):        
        if count[1:28].strip() in record:
           code= ''.join(map(str.strip, read_record[i+19:i+21]))
           print code[25:]
           break
    else:
        # no break occurred
        pass