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Python Decision Making Structures Explained

The document explains decision making in Python programming, which involves evaluating conditions and executing actions based on TRUE or FALSE outcomes. It outlines different types of decision making statements, including if statements, if...else statements, and nested if statements. Additionally, it provides an example of a one-line if clause demonstrating how to use these structures in Python.

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Python Decision Making Structures Explained

The document explains decision making in Python programming, which involves evaluating conditions and executing actions based on TRUE or FALSE outcomes. It outlines different types of decision making statements, including if statements, if...else statements, and nested if statements. Additionally, it provides an example of a one-line if clause demonstrating how to use these structures in Python.

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Python - Decision Making

Decision making is anticipation of conditions occurring while execution of the program and
specifying actions taken according to the conditions.

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.

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[Link]. Statement & Description

1 if statements
An if statement consists of a boolean expression followed by one or more
statements.

2 if...else statements
An if statement can be followed by an optional else statement, which executes
when the boolean expression is FALSE.

3 nested if statements
You can use one if or else if statement inside another if or else if statement(s).

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 −

Live Demo
#!/usr/bin/python

var = 100
if ( 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 100


Good bye!

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