Introduction of Python Control Structures

Introduction

Programs may contain set of statements. These statements are the executable segments that yield the result. In general, statements are executed sequentially, that is the statements are executed one after another. There may be situations in our real life programming where we need to skip a segment or set of statements and execute another segment based on the test of a condition. This is called alternative or branching. Also, we may need to execute a set of statements multiple times, called iteration or looping. In this chapter we are to focus on the various control structures in Python, their syntax and learn how to develop the programs using them.