That's where elif comes in handy to prevent such thing from happening, which is the primary benefit of using it The other secondary good benefit of using elif instead of multiple if 's is to avoid confusion and better code readability. I just started python programming, and i'm wondering about the elif keyword Other programming languages i've used before use else if Does anyone have an idea why the python developers added the Assuming the invalid syntax is a typo, the big benefit of elif vs having an else statement with a nested if is indentation
Each time you go into a nested if you'll need to indent again, which will destroy readability. Elif seems to have originated with the c preprocessor, which used #elif long before python afaict The other side of it is that for if/elif/else the performance will vary based on how the data is sorted, and whether it checks the most occurring condition first. Whats wrong with this code If %language% == de ( goto languagede ) else ( if %language% == en ( goto languageen ) else ( echo not found If you are using elif & and, you might need to rewrite # do something applicable to all condition or other line multiple times
I'm guessing you're starting python scripting with a background somewhere else, where a switch statement would solve your question As that's not an option in python, you're looking for another way to do things Without context, though, you can't really answer this question very well (there are far too many options) I'll throw in one (somewhat pythonic) alternative
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