The if statement

Learn how if statements work in Python

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Python’s if statement is pretty easy to use. Let’s spend a few minutes looking at some examples to better acquaint ourselves with this construct.

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if 2 > 1:
print("This is a True statement!")
#This is a True Statement!

This conditional tests the “truthfulness” of the following statement: 2 > 1. Since this statement evaluates to True, it will cause the last line in the example to print to the screen or standard out (stdout).


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