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Using If-else statements

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Using If-else statements

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An if-else statement is used to instruct the computer to perform a certain action, if a certain condition is met and a different action if that condition is not met. For example, say you want a function that takes two numbers as inputs. These numbers can be either integers or floating point numbers, and the function returns the minimum of these two numbers. You would do something like this. I'll start with the def keyword because I'm defining a function followed by the name of the function. I'll name this function "minimum" followed by (x, y) and x and y will be generic representations of the inputs that minimum takes in, followed by a colon. I hit "Enter" to get to the next line and after the indent, I'll begin writing my if-else statement. I start with the if keyword followed by the condition that I want to check. In this case, I want to check if x is less than y, so I say x less than y followed by a colon and on the next line after the indent, I write return x. What this part means…

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