Introduction

The world is often a complicated place to write a program that executes sequentially. No matter what project you’re working on, it involves skipping few statements and then executing a series of statements recursively.

This is where conditional statements in any language come to light; often, most languages have an if statement as a fundamental step to begin with, so does Python. Without any further delay, let’s explore the different ways to write conditional statements in Python.

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If Statement

In simple words, if statement is a combination of two components: expression and statement.

**expression: **It’s the condition that needs to evaluated and return a boolean (true/false)value.

statement: statement is a general python code that executes if the **expression **returns true.

The syntax of if statement looks, as shown below:

if <expression>:
    <statement>

Always remember colon(:) following the expression is mandatory, to put it into the action we can do something as shown below:

simple if statement in python

We can also execute multiple statements if the expression returns true, Have a look:

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