"""BREAK statement @see: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html The break statement, like in C, breaks out of the innermost enclosing "for" or "while" loop. """ def test_break_statement(): """BREAK statement""" # Let's terminate the loop in case if we've found the number we need in a range from 0 to 100. number_to_be_found = 42 # This variable will record how many time we've entered the "for" loop. number_of_iterations = 0 for number in range(100): if number == number_to_be_found: # Break here and don't continue the loop. break else: number_of_iterations += 1 # We need to make sure that break statement has terminated the loop once it found the number. assert number_of_iterations == 42