I am trying to re-run a nested for loop within a while loop if the while condition is not met. If the condition is met then I want the inner loop to terminate and proceed to the next iteration of the outer loop. I want to try the inner loop 10 times before preceding to the next i of the outer loop. I've tried various variations of the following (psuedocode) but am unsure exactly what the if / else statements at the end the function should say, break/continue? And where they should be indented to accomplish this. I've appended the indentation lengths to each part of the code. I would be grateful if anyone can help explain if it's possible to do this and how to do it. Thanks in advance. def function(input): counter1 = 0 for i in range(0, 10): #indent5 - outer loop #assign some stuff to variables based on value of i... counter2 = 0 var1 = cats var2 = dogs x = len(input) MAX_RETRIES = 10 attempts = 0 while attempts < MAX_RETRIES and counter2 < x: #indent9 for var in var1 : #13 - inner loop if blah == blah: #indent17 #do a lot of stuff here with cats and dogs... random.choice(etc, etc) #nested ifs if blahblah == blahblah: #indent21 counter1 += 1 if blahblahblah == blahblahblah: #indent21 counter2 += 1 if at end of inner loop counter2 == x: #indent where? #go to next iteration of OUTER loop break / continue ? #? else: #indent where? #repeat INNER loop - how? break / continue ? #reduce counter1 by value of counter2 counter1 -= counter2 #reset counter2 to 0 to start inner loop again counter2 = 0 return blah Continue reading...
