Lecture
Executing When One of Multiple Conditions is Met Using the elif Statement
elif is short for else if and it defines a code block that executes when one of multiple conditions is true.
The elif statement is positioned between the if and else statements and provides additional conditions to check when the if condition is false.
Structure of the elif Statement
You can use multiple elif statements within the same conditional structure.
When one of the elif conditions is true, the code in that block is executed.
As with if and else, every elif line must end with a colon(:) to mark the beginning of its code block.
Example of elif Statement
number = 5 if number > 10: print("The number is greater than 10.") elif number > 5: print("The number is greater than 5 but less than or equal to 10.") elif number > 0: print("The number is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 5.") else: print("The number is 0 or negative.")
Lessons in this chapter · Control Logical Flow with if, else, and elif
- 1. Controlling Program Flow with if Statements
- 2. The else Statement for When if Condition is False
- 3. Executing When One of Multiple Conditions is Met Using the elif Statement
- 4. Multiple-choice quiz
- 5. Which values are always considered False?
- 6. The `pass` Keyword That Does Nothing
- 7. Indicating Unimplemented Features with NotImplementedError
- 8. Coding Quiz - Python Temperature Converter
- 9. Multiple-choice quiz
- 10. Fill-in-the-blank quiz
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When is the elif statement used in Python?
When all conditions are true
When there are no conditions
When one of multiple conditions is true
When the condition is always false
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