--Originally published at Start in the world of the #TC101
It is frequently the case that you want one thing to happen when a condition it true, and something else to happen when it is false, if else.
if BOOLEAN EXPRESSION: STATEMENTS_1 # executed if condition evaluates to True else: STATEMENTS_2 # executed if condition evaluates to False
Example:
Sometimes there are more than two possibilities and we need more than two branches. One way to express a computation like that is a chained conditional
Example:
Source: http://www.openbookproject.net/books/bpp4awd/ch04.html