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Brandon O'Neill
Brandon O'Neill

Reputation: 3

While loop inside of a For loop, jump back into For loop at counter index Python

I am parsing through data in a for loop. When the item is found, it kicks to a while loop and finds an item related to it. Within this while loop, I have a counter for the iterations within the while loop. When I kick back to the For loop, it wants to iterate from the original position of the For loop. I am trying to skip those iterations and start equal to the counter.

I am new to SO. If I was not clear enough, I would be happy to answer any questions. 

for x in range(0, 10):
    if b has been found
         x = counter    
    #find a
        #flag is true

    while flag true:
         #find b
           #flag is false
         #count iterations

Upvotes: 0

Views: 123

Answers (1)

rdimaio
rdimaio

Reputation: 325

Would you be willing to restructure your code? I think the outer for loop would work better as a while loop:

x = 0
while x < 10:
    if b has been found
         x = counter    
    #find a
        #flag is true

    while flag true:
         #find b
           #flag is false
         #count iterations
    x += 1

That way, you can change the value of x in the loop.

Upvotes: 2

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