Best practice for nesting loops?

Question

From a best practice perspective, how many loops should you nest in each other? I ask because I'm in the process of making a simple text game in python with plot options in loops to take input. I plan to make it short but if I made it 5 tiers with 2 options, I would have 32 branches, which would be mental as one block of code. Should I separate each branch into a subprogram/function? Or should I be grouping the branches in a more efficient and easily readable way than one huge chunk?

Answer 1

Tyrant Thanks, I was thinking that about three was starting to get a bit too much

Answer 2

Mike Utty Nice suggestion. I will have a play around and see how it works for me

Answer 3

thanks Rob Bailiff for the likestorms

Answer 4

Cybernaut And thank you too 😁

Answer 5

I think you should group the branches,at most you should nest at least 3 loops if you want to keep track of your program...Don't go higher than 3 nested loops,it'll confuse you...

Answer 6

https://code.sololearn.com/cml421W77zgg/?ref=app
Maybe try something like this. It is a way to mimic a switch statement.

Answer 7

Also for functions that won't be called more than a couple times, you can use lamdas inside the dict. If the functions get called often though lambdas would start to cost a bit more because it would have to generate a new func at each call so only use the lambda way sparingly.