A Guide to Python IF...ELIF...ELSE...Statements

Hello dear readers! Welcome back to another edition of our tutorial on Python. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be discussing about the if.....elif.....else statements in Python.

An else statement in Python can be combined with an if statement. An else statement contains a code block that automatically executes in the case where the expression in the if statement returns 0 or a FALSE value.

The else statement is an optional statement and there could be at most only one else statement following an if statement.

Syntax

The following below is the syntax of Python if...else statement -

if expression:
   statement(s)
else:
   statement(s)

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Example

Below is a short example -

#!/usr/bin/python

var1 = 100
if var1:
   print "1 - Got a true expression value"
   print var1
else:
   print "1 - Got a false expression value"
   print var1

var2 = 0
if var2:
   print "2 - Got a true expression value"
   print var2
else:
   print "2 - Got a false expression value"
   print var2

print "Good bye!"

Output

The following below is the output of the above example -

1 - Got a true expression value
100
2 - Got a false expression value
0
Good bye!

Elif Statement

The Python elif statement lets you to check multiple expressions for true and executes a block of code soon as one of those conditions evaluates to TRUE.

Similar to the else statement, the elif statement is optional. But, unlike else, for which there can be at most only one statement, there can be an arbitrary number of elif statements following an if.

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Syntax

The following below is the syntax for an elif statement -

if expression1:
   statement(s)
elif expression2:
   statement(s)
elif expression3:
   statement(s)
else:
   statement(s)

Python does not provide switch or case statements just like other programming languages, but we can use the if....elif....statements to simulate switch case as follows -

Example

Below is a short example -

#!/usr/bin/python

var = 100
if var == 200:
   print "1 - Got a true expression value"
   print var
elif var == 150:
   print "2 - Got a true expression value"
   print var
elif var == 100:
   print "3 - Got a true expression value"
   print var
else:
   print "4 - Got a false expression value"
   print var

print "Good bye!"

Output

Below is the output of the above example -

3 - Got a true expression value
100
Good bye!

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Alright guys! This is where we are rounding up for this tutorial. In our next tutorial, we will be discussing about the nested If Statements.

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