Python for Entrepreneurs Transcripts
Chapter: Appendix: Python language concepts
Lecture: Concept: Complex conditionals
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Sometimes within a control structure like if or while loops, things like that,
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we need to have complex tests
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tests against more than one variable and negations, things like that.
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So, here is a pretty comprehensive example of testing for both multiple values
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as well as taking over the precedence by using parenthesis and negation using not.
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many languages use symbols for this combination,
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like the C-based languages use double ampersand for and,
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and exclamation mark for not, those kinds of things.
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Python is more verbose and uses the English words.
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So here we are going to test for two conditions that both have to be True,
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it's not the case that x is truthy so x has to be falsie, from the previous discussions,
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so an empty sequence, None, zero, are False, something like that,
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and the combination of one of two things- z is not equal to two or y itself is falsie.
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So, using this as an example,
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you should be able to come up with pretty comprehensive conditional statements.
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Now, one final note is Python is a short circuiting conditional evaluation language,
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for example, if x was True, the stuff to the right and the end would not be evaluated.
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You might wonder why that matters, a lot of times it doesn't, in this case, nothing really would happen.
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Sometimes you want to work with like sub values of an object,
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so you might test that x is not None,
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so you would say "if x and x.is_registered" or something like that.
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Whereas if you just said x.is_registered, x was None,
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your app of course would crash.
