2FLOW CONTROL
So, you know the basics of individual instructions and that a program is just a series of instructions. But programming’s real strength isn’t just running one instruction after another like a weekend errand list. Based on how expressions evaluate, a program can decide to skip instructions, repeat them, or choose one of several instructions to run. In fact, you almost never want your programs to start from the first line of code and simply execute every line, straight to the end. Flow control statements can decide which Python instructions to execute under which conditions.
These flow control statements directly correspond to the ...
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