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Working with if statements

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Working with if statements

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Conditional statements help you control the flow of your programs execution. A conditional statement instructs the computer to perform certain actions if certain conditions are met. The simplest conditional statement is called an if statement. An if statement instructs the computer to perform a specific action or set of actions If a specific condition is satisfied. For example, say you asked the user for an integer between -10 and 10 and if the number they enter is less than 5, a message is displayed to the user. You would do something like this. I'll call input, which is a built-in Python function and I'll pass in the following prompt. Choose an integer between -10 and 10 and enter it here. So the user will be prompted to enter an integer between -10 and 10. Now, I want to store the user's response. So I can create a variable named 'n' and assign it to the user's response. Note that the function input always returns the user's response to the prompt as a string, so 'n' is a string…

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