# Add optional \`if break:\` suite to \`for/while\`

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/add-optional-if-break-suite-to-for-while/71712>\
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**Created:** [November 19, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/add-optional-if-break-suite-to-for-while/71712 "2024-11-19T20:57:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/add-optional-if-break-suite-to-for-while/71712/3 "2024-11-19T21:13:55Z")

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Yes, that’s the kind of thing I sometimes resort to now. Code can, of course, be much more complex than my bare-bones skeleton, and it’s very easy to forget to add `found = True` before _every_ `break`. I’m unsatisfied with that approach in real life.

> [@zware](#):
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> at the cost of confusion when someone tries `if break:` independent of a loop construct.

Why would they? 😉 They don’t try to use a bare `else:` independent of a loop construct either. Or, if they do, they get a syntax error. Same thing here if they try to use `if break:` independent of a loop construct.

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