Glossary
- block
- A group of consecutive statements with the same indentation.
- body
- The block of statements in a compound statement that follows the
header.
- branch
- One of the possible paths of the flow of execution determined by
conditional execution.
- chained conditional
- A conditional branch with more than two possible flows of execution. In
Python chained conditionals are written with
if ... elif ... else
statements.
- comparison operator
- One of the operators that compares two values:
==, !=, >,
<, >=, and <=.
- condition
- The boolean expression in a conditional statement that determines which
branch is executed.
- conditional statement
- A statement that controls the flow of execution depending on some
condition. In Python the keywords
if, elif, and else are
used for conditional statements.
- nesting
- One program structure within another, such as a conditional statement
inside a branch of another conditional statement.
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