Breaking/continuing out of multiple loops

[petersuter]

@PythonMillionaire

the refactoring approaches that I found people suggesting to get around such cases seem to me infinitely clumsier than the simple addition of an integer. So clumsy, in fact, that it seemed to me very anti-pythonic, which is why I thought I might suggest this here.

I actually kind of agree with that. For example the top result when I search “python multiple for loop break” is:

How can I break out of multiple loops?

The first response has no example, so is maybe easily ignored, the second response has a clever solution, but maybe “too clever”? Applied to the original example above it would look like this I guess:

for sport in all_sports:
	for player in all_players:
		for player_tables in all_tables:
			for version in player_tables:
				# things have gone wrong, go to next iteration of all_sports loop
				break
			else:
				continue
			break
		else:
			continue
		break