[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 67, Issue 22

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Mon Sep 7 02:18:42 CEST 2009


"Corey Richardson" <kb1pkl at aim.com> wrote

>> then you can program anything since sequences, loops and 
>> branches are all that are necessary to program anything!

> Ummm, whats a branch? Haha, I know loops, but not branches.

Branches are if/else statements and case statements and jump 
or goto statements. In Python they are restricted to if/elif/else

Sometimes known as conditionals.

See the branching topic in my tutor for more detail.


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