Al Faisal University

College of Engineering
Software Engineering Department
SE 100L – Programming for Engineers Lab

Pre- Lab for Lab 5 – If/If-Else/If-Elif-Else Statements

Introduction
The if condition is considered the simplest of the three and makes a decision based on whether the
condition is true or not. If the condition is true, it prints out the indented expression. If the
condition is false, it skips printing the indented expression.

Example of if
Suppose you have a variable z, equal to 4. If the value is 'even', you will print z is 'even'. You will
use modulo operator 2, which will return 0 if z is 'even'. As soon as you run the below code, Python
will check if the condition holds. If True, the corresponding code will be executed.

Example of multiple lines inside if statement

It is perfectly fine to have more lines inside the if statement, as shown in the below example. The
script will return two lines when you run it. If the condition is not passed, the expression is not
executed.
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College of Engineering
Software Engineering Department
SE 100L – Programming for Engineers Lab
Example of a False if statement

Let's change the value of z to be odd. You will notice that the code will not print anything since the
condition will not be passed, i.e., False.

if-else condition

The if-else condition adds an additional step in the decision-making process compared to the
simple if statement. The beginning of an if-else statement operates similar to a simple if statement;
however, if the condition is false, instead of printing nothing, the indented expression under else will
be printed.

Example of if-else

Continuing our previous example, what if you want to print 'z is odd' when the if condition is false?
In this case, you can simply add another condition, which is the else condition. If you run it
with z equal to 5, the condition is not true, so the expression for the else statement gets printed out.
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College of Engineering
Software Engineering Department
SE 100L – Programming for Engineers Lab

if-elif-else condition

The most complex of these conditions is the if-elif-else condition. When you run into a situation
where you have several conditions, you can place as many elif conditions as necessary between
the if condition and the else condition.

Example of if-elif-else condition

Below is an example of where you want different printouts for numbers that are divisible by 2 and
3.Here, since z equals 3, the first condition is False, so it goes over to the next condition. The next
condition does hold True. Hence, the corresponding print statement is executed.
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College of Engineering
Software Engineering Department
SE 100L – Programming for Engineers Lab

Example of if-elif-else condition

In the below example, you define two variables room and area. You then construct if-elif-else and if-
else conditions each for room and area, respectively. In the first condition, you check if you are
looking in the kitchen, elif you are looking in the bedroom, else you are looking around elsewhere.
Depending on the value of the room variable, the satisfied condition is executed.Similarly, for
the area variable, you write an if and else condition and check whether the area is greater than 15 or
not.

When we run the above code, it produces the following result:

looking around in the bedroom. pretty small.