skip a parent loop from a loop inside for loop in python [duplicate]

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Maybe the title is kind of confusing but you will understand what i mean in the code:

for item in items: #i want to skip one loop of this bucle
    for i in item: #loop nº2
        if i==5:
            continue #but this only skip a loop in nº2, there's no propagation

How can i get this to work? Thanks in advance.

Set a flag, break out of the inner loop, check the flag in the main loop, and continue as appropriate.

  for i = 1 to N do
     flag = false
     for j = 1 to M do
        ...
        if condition then
           flag = true
           break
        ...
     if flag then continue
     ...