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Chapter: Appendix: Python language concepts
Lecture: Concept: if/else
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The most common control flow structure in programming has to be the "if" statement. Let's see how we do "if" statements in Python.
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Here we have a simple console program, probably this bit of code is running in some kind of a loop or something like that,
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and we are asking the user for input saying "what is your command?", either list the items by typing L or exit from the program by hitting x.
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And we capture that string and we say "if", so simple keyword "if"... some boolean test, so in this case the command is == 'L'
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so that means is the command equal to L: (colon) and then define what we are going to do in that case.
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In this case we are going to list the items, we could do multiple lines, we are just doing one here.
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Now we don't say "else if", in Python we say "elif", for short, but then we just have another test,
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so if it's not L and the command happens to be x, then we are going to exit. And those are the two options that we are expecting,
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but if we get something that we don't expect, like "hello there", or empty enter or something like that,
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we'll be in this final bit here where it says "Sorry, that wasn't understood". So we start with "if" some kind of boolean expression, and remember,
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we could just say "if" command: and leverage the truthiness of that value, and that would run if they provided some kind of input at all,
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but if we want to test for else, we say if command == 'L', we have these additional as many as you want "else if" tests
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and there is a final optional "else" clause.