The first thing that came to mind was either for/else, try/except, or refactoring out to a function which were all mentioned in the article. This solves the problem in all cases except a multi-level continue as it was called, and the solution by Python Millionaire was essentially goto labels. The reason high level programming languages moved away from goto labels is because they create spaghetti code. Goto labels were before for and while loops and are not necessary now, but this is a shallow answer because goto labels do work.

To dig deeper into why goto labels are bad and the alternative, what goto labels allow you to do is to create a state machine in procedural code. The more explicit way to do this is to create a dictionary object that tracks the state and a while loop with state-based logic that includes a halting condition. But according to Python Millionaire this would not be “Pythonic” which is basically just a blanket term for saying it is built into the language and therefore designed to be simple and easy to read. However, I would argue that goto statements are inherently un-Pythonic because they encourage spaghetti code. I don’t see how for/else or try/except is not Pythonic, but also I don’t see the aversion to refactoring to separate function which is the accepted cross-language way to refactor and simplify code. It even lets you write a built-in comment for what the function does, the function name. That being said, an easy way to determine if the function failed is to either throw and exception or simply return a result like True/False which would determine whether to break out of the parent loop.