Python Flow Control

Python Flow Control

1. Python Flow Control
if…else
for Loop
while loop
Break and continue
Pass statement

2. if...else
Decision making is required when we want to
execute a code only if a certain condition is satisfied.
Theif…elif…elsestatement is used in Python for
decision making.
In Python, the body of theifstatement is indicated by
the indentation.
Body starts with an indentation and the first
unindentedline marks the end.
Python interprets non-zero values
asTrue.Noneand0are interpreted asFalse.

4. Exercise –if
Write a program to give a discount of
10% if the total bill amount exceeds 1000.

6. if...else Statement
Theif..elsestatement evaluatestest expressionand will
execute body ofifonly when test condition isTrue.
If the condition isFalse, body ofelseis executed.
Indentation is used to separate the blocks.

8. Exercise
Write a program to check if a given
number is a multiple of 5.

9. if...elif...else
Theelifis short for else if. It allows us
to check for multiple expressions.
If the condition forifisFalse, it checks
the condition of the nextelifblock
and so on.
If all the conditions areFalse, body of
else is executed.
Only one block among the
severalif...elif...elseblocks is executed
according to the condition.
Theifblock can have only
oneelseblock. But it can have
multipleelifblocks.

12. Programming Task
Minimum age to Cast your Vote : 18
Minimum age to Contest an Election: 25
Given the age verify if the person can
vote and can s(he) contest an election.

13. Exercise
Write a program to check if a given year is leap year or not.
Logic:
if a year is not divisible by 4, its not a leap year.
If a year is divisible by 4 and not divisible by 100, it’s a leap year.
If a year is divisible by 4 and 100 then it should be divisible by 400
to be a leap year

17. Loops
Loops are used in programming to
repeat a specific block of code.
Looping Constructs in Python
◦while
◦for

18. While loop
The while loop in Python is used to iterate over
a block of code as long as the test expression
(condition) is true.
We generally use this loop when we don't know
beforehand, the number of times to iterate.

20. Write a program to print the number of
digits of a given number using while loop.

22. For loop
For loops iterate over a given sequence.
Here,valis the variable that takes the value of the item
inside the sequence on each iteration.
Loop continues until we reach the last item in the
sequence. The body of for loop is separated from the
rest of the code using indentation.

24. Range Function
We can generate a sequence of numbers
usingrange()function.
range(10)will generate numbers from 0 to 9 (10
numbers).
To force this function to output all the items, we can
use the functionlist().

25. Range function
We can also define the start, stop and
step size asrange(start,stop,stepsize).
step size defaults to 1 if not provided.

27. Exercise
Write a program to calculate the factorial
of a given number.

30. break and continue
Loops iterate over a block of code until test expression
is false, but sometimes we wish to terminate the
current iteration or even the whole loop without
checking test expression.
break statement
The break statement terminates the loop containing it.
Control of the program flows to the statement
immediately after the body of the loop.
If break statement is inside a nested loop (loop inside
another loop), break will terminate the innermost loop.

32. Exercise
Write a program to check if a given
number is prime or not.
If a number is divisible by any number
between 2 and n-1, its not prime,
otherwise prime

34. continue statement
The continue statement is used to skip the rest of the
code inside a loop for the current iteration only. Loop
does not terminate but continues on with the next
iteration.

35. for loop with else
A for loop can have an optional else block as well.
Theelsepart is executed if the items in the sequence
used in for loop exhausts.
break statement can be used to stop a for loop. In such
case, the else part is ignored.
Hence, a for loop's else part runs if no break occurs.

36. for loop with else

37. Nested Loop

38. while loop with else
Same as that offor loop, we can have an
optionalelseblock with while loop as well.

39. Pass statement
Suppose we have aloopor afunctionthat is not
implemented yet, but we want to implement it in the
future.
They cannot have an empty body.
We use thepassstatement to construct a body that
does nothing.