6. break Statement (Keyword)

There can be times when you want to prematurely end a while statement. The break statement can be used to accomplish this. The break statement can be used to prematurely end the while statement that it's nested in. This means it will end only one while statement, not all of them. An example is given below.

>>> pop = 0
>>> while True:
...     print(pop)
...     pop += 1
...     if pop == 10:
...         break
...
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The above example demonstrates that a while loop can be ended, even if it is True. You should also note from the example that the break statement doesn't require a colon (:), which means new indentation isn't needed. Putting a colon at the end of break will cause an error; the omission of the colon isn't optional, it's mandatory.

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