Why doesn't exec(“break”) work inside a while loop

Question

As the question asks, why doesn\'t the below code work:

while True:
      exec(\"break\")

I am executing the above in pycharm via python 3.

Answer 1

exec is a built in function ,

Python insists that break should happen inside the loop,not inside a function

What is happening in your code is you are putting break inside a function which is exec you can't break out of a loop by executing a break within a function that's called inside the loop.

For Ex

>>> def func():
        break
SyntaxError: 'break' outside loop
>>>