Lazy Programming Series – If-else & elif

In Python, you can use if, else, and elif (short for “else if”) statements to control the flow of your program based on different conditions. Here’s a basic structure:

Here’s a simple example:

In this example, the program checks whether x is greater than 0, equal to 0, or less than 0, and prints a corresponding message based on the condition that evaluates to True.

You can have multiple elif statements to check for different conditions, and the else block is optional. The if, elif, and else blocks are determined by indentation in Python, so be sure to maintain consistent indentation levels for proper code structure.