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Conditional Statement

This document discusses conditional statements in Python programming. It introduces if statements, which allow different code blocks to execute depending on if an expression evaluates to True or False. It also covers elif blocks, indentation importance, one-line if statements, conditional expressions, and nested if statements. Conditional statements are used to perform different computations depending on conditions.

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This document discusses conditional statements in Python programming. It introduces if statements, which allow different code blocks to execute depending on if an expression evaluates to True or False. It also covers elif blocks, indentation importance, one-line if statements, conditional expressions, and nested if statements. Conditional statements are used to perform different computations depending on conditions.

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BCA1111C03:

Introduction to Programming using Python

Priti Patel
Department of Computer Applications
Conditional Statements
In programming and scripting languages, conditional
statements or conditional constructs are used to perform
different computations or actions depending on whether
a condition evaluates to true or false. (Please note that
true and false are always written as True and False in
Python.)
The condition usually uses comparisons and arithmetic
expressions with variables.
These expressions are evaluated to the Boolean values
True or False.
The statements for the decision taking are called
conditional statements, alternatively they are also known
as conditional expressions or conditional constructs.
If statement
The general form of the if statement in Python looks like this:
if condition_1:
statement_block_1
elif condition_2:
statement_block_2
else:
statement_block_3
If the condition "condition_1" is True, the statements in the
block statement_block_1 will be executed.
If not, condition_2 will be executed.
 If condition_2 evaluates to True, statement_block_2 will be
executed, if condition_2 is False, the statements in
statement_block_3 will be executed.
Indentation is Important
Python relies on indentation (whitespace at the
beginning of a line) to define scope in the code. Other
programming languages often use curly-brackets for
this purpose.
One-Line if Statements
if <expr>:
<statement>
But it is permissible to write an entire if statement on
one line. The following is functionally equivalent to
the example above:
if <expr>: <statement>
Conditional Expressions (Python’s Ternary
Operator)
Python supports one additional decision-making entity
called a conditional expression. (It is also referred to as a
conditional operator or ternary operator in various
places in the Python documentation.)
In its simplest form, the syntax of the conditional
expression is as follows:
<expr1> if <conditional_expr> else <expr2>
In the above example, <conditional_expr> is evaluated
first. If it is true, the expression evaluates to <expr1>. If it
is false, the expression evaluates to <expr2>.
Nested if
When there is if statement inside another if statement
then it is known as nested if.
if <expr>:
if <expr>:
if <expr>:
<statement>
else:
<statement>
else:
<statement>
else:
<statement>

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