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"""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