Clarification to the `break` statement (GH-2453) (GH-2458)

Clarify that the break statement breaks out of the innermost enclosing for or while loop.
(cherry picked from commit 36fc896740319d2c03aa2054a90a999c162517ef)

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
index fbe4e924f0c5b9c00585806e5041a2251a1af8f8..6af72822fcd72b7b3a2ce227cd8653a98b28e859 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ Later we will see more functions that return iterables and take iterables as arg
 :keyword:`break` and :keyword:`continue` Statements, and :keyword:`else` Clauses on Loops
 =========================================================================================
 
-The :keyword:`break` statement, like in C, breaks out of the smallest enclosing
+The :keyword:`break` statement, like in C, breaks out of the innermost enclosing
 :keyword:`for` or :keyword:`while` loop.
 
 Loop statements may have an ``else`` clause; it is executed when the loop