How to exit an if clause

Question

What sorts of methods exist for prematurely exiting an if clause?

There are times when I\'m writing code and want to put a break statement

Answer 1

For what was actually asked, my approach is to put those ifs inside a one-looped loop

while (True):
    if (some_condition):
        ...
        if (condition_a):
            # do something
            # and then exit the outer if block
            break
        ...
        if (condition_b):
            # do something
            # and then exit the outer if block
            break
        # more code here
    # make sure it is looped once
    break

Test it:

conditions = [True,False]
some_condition = True

for condition_a in conditions:
    for condition_b in conditions:
        print("\n")
        print("with condition_a", condition_a)
        print("with condition_b", condition_b)
        while (True):
            if (some_condition):
                print("checkpoint 1")
                if (condition_a):
                    # do something
                    # and then exit the outer if block
                    print("checkpoint 2")
                    break
                print ("checkpoint 3")
                if (condition_b):
                    # do something
                    # and then exit the outer if block
                    print("checkpoint 4")
                    break
                print ("checkpoint 5")
                # more code here
            # make sure it is looped once
            break