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Control Flow Statements in Python

Types of Statement in Python

▪ Statements are the instructions given to

computer to perform any task. Task may be
simple calculation, checking the condition or
repeating action.
▪ Python supports 3 types of statement:
 Empty statement
 Simple statement
 Compound stateme
Empty Statement

▪ It is the simplest statement i.e. a statement

which does nothing. It is written by using
keyword – pass
▪ Whenever python encountered pass it does
nothing and moves to next statement in flow
of control
▪ Required where syntax of python required
presence of a statement but where the logic
of program does. More detail will be explored
with loop.
Simple Statement

▪ Any single executable statement in Python is

simple statement. For e.g.
▪ Name = input(“enter your name “)
▪ print(name)
Compound Statement

▪ It represent group of statement executed as

unit. The compound statement of python are
written in a specific pattern:

Compound_Statement_Header :
indented_body containing multiple
simple or compound statement
Compound Statement has:

▪ Header which begins with keyword/function

and ends with colon(:)
▪ A body contains of one or more python
statements each indented inside the header
line. All statement in the body or under any
header must be at the same level of
indentation.
Statement Flow Control

▪ In python program statement may execute in

a sequence, selectively or iteratively. Python
programming support 3 Control Flow
statements:
1. Sequence
2. Selection
3. Iteration
if Statement of Python
▪ ‘if’ statement of python is used to execute
statements based on condition. It tests the
condition and if the condition is true it perform
certain action, we can also provide action for
false situation.
▪ if statement in Python is of many forms:
 if without false statement
 if with else
 if with elif
 Nested if
Simple “if”
▪ In the simplest form if statement in Python
checks the condition and execute the
statement if the condition is true and do
nothing if the condition is false.
▪ Syntax: All statement
belonging to if
if condition: must have same
indentation level
Statement1
Statements ….
** if statement is compound statement having
header and a body containing intended
statement.
Points to remember with “if”

▪ It must contain valid condition which

evaluates to either True or False
▪ Condition must followed by Colon (:) , it is
mandatory
▪ Statement inside if must be at same
indentation level.
bonus = 0
sale = int(input("Enter Monthly Sales :"))
if sale>50000:
bonus=sale * 10 /100
print("Bonus = " + str(bonus))
if with else

▪ if with else is used to test the condition and if

the condition is True it perform certainaction
and alternate course of action if the
condition is false.
▪ Syntax:
if condition:
Statements
else:
Statements
 Input Age of person and print whether the person is
eligible for voting or not

age = int(input("Enter your age "))

if age>=18:
print("Congratulation! you are eligible for voting ")
else:
print("Sorry! You are not eligible for voting")
if with elif
▪ if with elif is used where multiple chain of condition is to
be checked. Each elif must be followed by condition: and
then statement for it. After every elif we can give else
which will be executed if all the condition evaluates to
false
▪ Syntax:
if condition:
Statements
elif condition:
Statements
elif condition:
Statements
else:
Statement
temp = int(input("Enter temperature of water "))
if temp>100:
print("Gaseous State")
elif temp<0:
print("Solid State")
else:
print("Liquid State")
Nested if
▪ In this type of “if” we put if within another if as a
statement of it. Mostly used in a situation where we
want different else for each condition. Syntax:
if condition1:
if condition2:
statements
else:
statements
elif condition3:
statements
else:
statements
Storing Condition

▪ In a program if our condition is complex and it

is repetitive then we can store the condition in
a name and then use the named condition in if
statement. It makes program more readable.
▪ For e.g.
▪ x_is_less=y>=x<=z
▪ y_is_less=x>=y<=z
▪ Even = num%2==0
Python Loop Statements

▪ To carry out repetition of statements Python

provide 2 loop statements
 Conditional loop (while)
 Counting loop (for)
range() function

▪ Before we proceed to for loop let us

understand range() function which we will use
in for loop to repeat the statement to n
number of times.
▪ Syntax:
 range(lower_limit, upper_limit)
▪ The range function generate set of values
from lower_limit to upper_limit-1
range() function

▪ For e.g.
▪ range(1,10) will generate set of values from
1-9
▪ range(0,7) will generate [0-6]
▪ Default step value will be +1 i.e.
▪ range(1,10) means (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9)
range() function

▪ To change the step value we can use third

parameter in range() which is step value
▪ For e.g.
▪ range(1,10,2) now this will generate value
[1,3,5,7,9]
▪ Step value can be in –ve also to generate set
of numbers in reverse order.
▪ range(10,0) will generate number as
[10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1]
range() function

▪ To create list from ZERO(0) we can use

▪ range(10) it will generate
[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
Operators in and not in

▪ The operator in and not in is used in for loop

to check whether the value is in the range /
list or not
▪ For e.g.
>>> 5 in [1,2,3,4,5]
True
>>> 5 in [1,2,3,4]
False
>>>’a’ in ‘apple’
True
>>>’national’ in ‘international’
True
for loop

▪ for loop in python is used to create a loop to

process items of any sequence like List, Tuple,
Dictionary, String
▪ It can also be used to create loop of fixed
number of steps like 5 times, 10 times, n times
etc using range() function.
Example – for loop with List

School=["Principal","PGT","TGT","PRT"]
for sm in School:
print(sm)

Example – for loop with Tuple

Code=(10,20,30,40,50,60)
for cd in Code:
print(cd)
Let us understand how for loop
works
Code=(10,20,30,40,50,60)
for cd in Code:
print(cd)
for loop with string

for ch in ‘Plan’:
print(ch)

The above loop product output

P
l
a
n
for with range()
Let us create a loop to print all the natural number from 1 to
100

for i in range(1,101):
print(i,end='\t')

** here end=‘\t’ will cause output to appear without

changing line and give one tab space between next output.
while loop

▪ While loop in python is conditional loop which

repeat the instruction as long as condition
remains true.
▪ It is entry-controlled loop i.e. it first check the
condition and if it is true then allows to enter
in loop.
▪ while loop contains various loop elements:
initialization, test condition, body of loop
and update statement
while loop elements

1. Initialization : it is used to give starting value

in a loop variable from where to start the loop
2. Test condition : it is the condition or last
value up to which loop will be executed.
3. Body of loop : it specifies the
action/statement to repeat in the loop
4. Update statement : it is the increase or
decrease in loop variable to reach the test
condition.
Example of simple while loop

i=1
while i<=10:
print(i)
i+=1
Jump Statements – break & continue

break statement in python is used to terminate

the containing loop for any given condition.
Program resumes from the statement
immediately after the loop

Continue statement in python is used to skip the

statements below continue statement inside
loop and forces the loop to continue with next
value.
Example – break
for i in range(1,20):
if i % 6 == 0:
break
print(i)
print(“Loop Over”)

The above code produces output

1
2
3
4
5
Loop Over
when the value of i reaches to 6 condition will becomes True and
loop will end and message “Loop Over” will be printed
Example – continue
for i in range(1,20):
if i % 6 == 0:
continue
print(i, end = ‘ ‘)
print(“Loop Over”)

The above code produces output

1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 19
Loop Over
when the value of i becomes divisible from 6, condition will
becomes True and loop will skip all the statement below
continue and continues in loop with next value of iteration.
Loop .. else .. Statement

▪ Loop in python provides else clause with loop

also which will execute when the loop
terminates normally i.e. when the test
condition fails in while loop or when last value
is executed in for loop but not when break
terminates the loop
Example (“else” with while)

i=1 else:
while i<=10: print("
print(i)
i+=1
Example (“else” with for)
names=["prayagraj","lucknow","indore","kanpur","agra","ghaziabad"
,"mathura","bhopal"]
city = input("Enter city to search: ")
for c in names:
if c == city:
print(“City Found")
break Output
else: Enter city to search : indore
City Found
print("Not found") Enter city to search : bhopal
Not found
Generating Random numbers

▪ Python allows us to generate random number

between any range
▪ To generate random number we need to
import random library
▪ Syntax: (to generate random number)
 random.randint(x,y)
 it will generate random number between x to y
 For e.g. : random.randint(1,10)
 Refer to code page no. 156
STRING MANIPULATION
Program to read string and
print in reverse order
string1 = input("Enter any string ")
print("The Reverse of ", string1 , " is :")
length=len(string1)
for ch in range(-1,(-length-1),-1):
print(string1[ch])
The above code will print
Enter any string: karan
n
a
r
a
k
Program to input string and
print short form
string=input("Enter any string ")
print(string[0],".",end='')
for ch in range(1,len(string)):
if string[ch]==' ':
print(string[ch+1],".",end='')
String operators

Two basic operators + and * are allowed

+ is used for concatenation (joining)
e.g. “shakti” + “man” OUTPUT: shaktiman
* Is used for replication (repetition)
e.g. “Bla” * 3 OUTPUT: BlaBlaBla

Note: you cannot multiply string and string using *

Only number*number or string*number is allowed
MEMBERSHIP OPERATORS
▪ Membership operators (in and not in) are used to
check the presence of character(s) in any string.

Example Output
‘a’ in ‘python’ False
‘a’ in ‘java’ True
‘per’ in ‘operators’ True
‘men’ in ‘membership’ False
‘Man’ in ‘manipulation’ False
‘Pre’ not in ‘presence’ True
Comparison operators
▪ We can apply comparison operators (==,
!=,>,<,>=,<=) on string. Comparison will be
character by character.
str1=„program‟
Comparison of
str2=„python‟ string will be
str3=„Python‟ based on ASCII
code of the
characters
Example Output
str1==str2 False
Characters Ordinal/
str1!=str2 True
ASCII code
str2==„pyth True A-Z 65-90
on‟
a-z 97-122
str2>str3 True
0-9 48-57
,
str3<str1 True
DETERMINING ORDINAL /
UNICODE OF A SINGLE
CHARACTER
Python allows us to find out the ordinal position
single character using ord() function.

>>>ord(‘A’) output will be 65

We can also find out the character based on the

ordinal value using chr() function

>>>chr(66) output will be ‘B’

String slicing
>>> str1="wonderful" >>> str1[3:3]
>>> str1[0:6] ''
'wonder' >>> str1[3:4]
>>> str1[0:3] 'd'
'won' >>> str1[-5:-2]
>>> str1[3:6] 'erf'
'der' >>> str1[:-2]
>>> str1[-1:-3] 'wonderf'
'' >>> str1[:4]
>>> str1[-3:-1] 'wond‘
'fu' >>> str1[-3:] Reverse
>>> str1[-3:0] 'ful‘ of string
'‘ >>>str1[::-1]
lufrednow
‘Wnefl’
Interesting string slicing
For any index position n: str1[:n]+str1[n:] will
give you the original string
>>>str1=“wonderful”
>>>str1[:n]+str[n:] output will be wonderful

String slicing will never return error even if you

pass index which is not in the string . For e.g.
>>>str1[10] will give error, but
>>>str1[10:15] will not give error but
return empty string
 Python string function
Function name Purpose Example
String.capitalize() Return a copy of string >>>’computer’.capitalize()
with first character as Computer
capital
String.find(str[,start[,end]]) Return lowest index of str Str=“johny johny yes
in given string , -1 if not papa”
found Sub=“johny”

Str.find(Sub)
0
Str.find(Sub,1)
6
Str.find(‘y’,6,11)
10
Str.find(‘pinky’)
-1
String.isalnum() Return True if the string is ‘hello123’.isalnum()
alphanumeric character True
Python string manipulation
function
Function name Purpose Example
String.isalnum() S=“ravi@gmail.com
S.Isalnum()
False
String.isalpha() Return True if string Str1=“hello”
contains only alphabets Str2=“hello123”
characters Str1.isalpha()
True
Str2.isalpha()
False
String.isdigit() Return True if string s1=“123”
contains only digits s1.isdigit()
True
Str2.isdigit()
False
String.islower() Return True if all Str1.islower()
character in string is in True
lower case
Python string manipulation
function
Function name Purpose Example
String.isspace() Return True if only S=“ “
whitespace characters in S.isspace()
the string True
S2=‘’
S2.isspace()
False
String.upper() Return True if all S=“HELLO”
characters in the string S.isupper()
are in upper case True
String.lower() Return copy of string S=“INDIA”
converted to lower case S.lower()
characters india
String.upper() Return copy of string S=“india”
converted to upper case S.lower()
characters INDIA
 Python string function
Function name Purpose Example
String.lstrip([chars]) Returns a copy of string with string=" hello"
leading characters removed. string.lstrip()
If no characters are passed then it 'hello'
removes whitespace string2="National"
It removes all combination of given string2.lstrip('nat')
characters i.e. if we pass “The” National
then its combination – The, Teh, string2.lstrip('Nat')
heT, ehT, he, eh, h, e, etc will be ional
removed string2.lstrip('at')
National
string2.lstrip('Na')
tional
string2.lstrip('atN')
ional
String.rstrip([chars]) Returns a copy of string with “saregamapadhanisa”.rstrip
trailing characters removed. Rest is (‘ania’)
same as lstrip saregamapadha