Control statements are used to change the order of
sequence of execution based on some conditions. Various control statements in python are if statement,
for statement, while statement, break, continue and pass.
Decision making
and Branching / Conditional / if statements
If statement is a powerful
decision-making statement and used to control the flow of execution of
statements. Basically it is a two way decision statement and is used with a
keyword if and test condition. It allows computer to evaluate the condition
first and then, depending on the condition transfers the control to a
particular statement. Python supports the following statements in order to
achieve decision making capabilities
1.
If statement
2.
If –else
3.
Nested If
4. elif
