title: How to simplify/what to use these if statements?
body: <p>I'm writing a program that needs to run a for loop then either return a string or runs the next for loop. I made it so that when it returns something a variable changes and the next loop doesn't run. It works fine but I feel there is a better way to do it.</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-py prettyprint-override"><code>check=0
      if check==0:
          for j in range (0,10):
              if something happens:
                  check=1
                  return('string')
      if check==0:
          for j in range (0,7):
              if something happens:
                  check=1
                  return('string')
  </code></pre>