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Decision Making
Python Tutorial
This Python tutorial has been written for the beginners to help them understand the basic to advanced concepts of Python Programming Language. After completing this tutorial, you will find yourself at a great level of expertise in Python, from where you can take yourself to the next levels to become a world class Software Engineer.
Decision Making
Python's decision making functionality is in its keywords −
if..elif...else
. The if
keyword requires a boolean expression, followed by colon (:) symbol. The colon (:) symbol starts an indented block. The statements with the same level of indentation are executed if the boolean expression in if statement
is True
. If the expression is not True
(False
), the interpreter bypasses the indented block and proceeds to execute statements at earlier indentation level.Decision structures evaluate multiple expressions which produce
TRUE
or FALSE
as outcome. You need to determine which action to take and which statements to execute if outcome is TRUE or FALSE otherwise.Following is the general form of a typical decision making structure found in most of the programming languages
Python programming language assumes any non-zero and non-null values as TRUE, and if it is either zero or null, then it is assumed as FALSE value.
Python programming language provides following types of decision making statements. Click the following links to check their detail.
Let us go through each decision making briefly −
Single Statement Suites
If the suite of an if clause consists only of a single line, it may go on the same line as the header statement.
Here is an example of a one-line if clause
#!/usr/bin/python
var = 100if ( var == 100 ) : print ("Value of expression is 100")print ("Good bye!")
When the above code is executed, it produces the following result
Value of expression is 100Good bye!
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