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ifThis tutorial will discuss the methods that can be used to exit statements in Python .

breakUsing exit ifstatement in Python

breakis a jump statement which jumps out of the loop if a certain condition is met. We can ifuse break statement in the loop.

breakThe main purpose of the statement is to move the control flow of our program outside the current loop. The following program demonstrates how to ifuse breakthe statement within the statement.

for i in range(10):
    print(i)
    if i == 5:
        break

Output:

0
1
2
3
4
5

We breakhave developed a program using the statement that will exit the loop if ithe value of the variable is equal to 5. The only thing missing from this approach is that we can only use it in the statement contained within the loop if. We cannot use it in nested ifstatements as shown below.

i = 0
if i % 2 == 0:
    if i == 0:
        break
    if i > 0:
        print("even")
print("Broken")

Output:

File "<ipython-input-3-efbf2e548ef1>", line 4
    break
    ^
SyntaxError: 'break' outside loop

If we want to exit a pure statement that is not contained in a loop if, we have to use the next method.

ifUsing the Exit Statement in Python

We can use another method to exit from a ifor nested ifstatement. We enclose the nested ifstatement in a function and use statement wherever we want to exit return.

The following code modifies the previous example according to the function approach.

def something(i):
    if i % 2 == 0:
        if i == 0:
            return
        if i > 0:
            print("even")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    something(0)
    print("Broken out")

Output:

Broken out

We have developed a program that uses a functional approach to exit multiple returnstatements with if. This approach is clean and far superior to any other approach that could be used for this purpose.

Many forums have mentioned another gotomethod involving the statement for this purpose. By default, we know that Python does not support gotothe statement.

However, in 2004, a module was released as part of an elaborate April Fools' joke, gotoand users started using it in earnest. We didn't mention it because it's not an elegant approach and its official page states that it should never be used in any production code.