This post explains how to use if statements in Python. This will form the backbone of much of your code going forward! Else statements, nesting, + more.

Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.

The creators of the Python language are mulling a new proposal, PEP 622, that would finally bring a pattern matching statement syntax to Python.The new pattern matching statements would give ...