In programming, conditions are what gives a language the power to showcase intelligence by controlling the flow of a program. That's why conditional statements are also referred to as in a programming language. control flow tools Python uses the usual flow control statements known from other programming languages, with some twists. Let's start with the basic one: if statement Output: Please enter your age: 19
You are allowed to view R-rated series on Netflix The above code is a good way to check one's age and display an action to be performed, but wouldn't be nice to have an alternate message to pop up if one's age is under 18? That's where we may use elif or else statements, and let's look how an if else combination would look like: if else statements Output: Please enter your age: 17
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian to view R-rated series on Netflix As you can see this code provides better context than the previous one and delivers an 'either or' output based on the given user input. What if we level up this code by giving in multiple inputs and writing some sophisticated conditions so that we get to check with the rating and corresponding age limit. This is where we get to use the if ... elif ... elif ... else sequence of conditional statements: if … elif … else statement Output: Please enter the film rating: NC-17
Please enter your age: 17
You are not allowed to view the film As you can see this code, it checks the age and rating corresponding to the input to provide you accurate details on parental guidance. Cool, right? And, by the way, if you're wondering about the code having multiple if ... elif ... if ... elif statements, don't worry. I've used something called as nested conditional statements where one can write if .. elif .. else statement inside any of the if elif else statements by nesting under each other. A Quick Note: There can be zero or more elif parts and the else part is optional The keyword ‘elif’ is short for ‘else if’, and is useful to avoid excessive indentation An if … elif … elif … sequence is a substitute for the switch or case statements found in other programming languages Code along and have fun ;) Also published at https://dev.to/aswin2001barath/conditional-statements-in-python-4g18

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