ST JOSEPH’S SCHOOL
SUBJECT – COMPUTER SCIENCE
Unit 6 – Flow Control
Decision Making and branching (Conditional Statement)
Looping or Iteration
Jumping statements
DECISION MAKING / SELECTION & BRANCHING
Decision making is about deciding the order of execution of statements based on certain
conditions. Decision structures evaluate multiple expressions which produce TRUE or FALSE
as outcome.
There are three types of conditions in python:
• if statement
• if-else statement
• elif statement
if statement: It is a simple if statement. When condition is true, then code which is associated
with if statement will execute.
Example:
a=40
b=20
if a>b:
print(“a is greater than b”)
if-else statement: When the condition is true, then code associated with if statement will
execute, otherwise code associated with else statement will execute.
Example:
a=10
b=20
if a>b:
print(“a is greater”)
else:
print(“b is greater”)
elif statement: It is short form of else-if statement. If the previous conditions were not true,
then do this condition”. It is also known as nested if statement.
Example:
a=input(“Enter first number”)
b=input(“Enter Second Number:”)
if a>b:
print(“a is greater”)
elif a==b:
print(“both numbers are equal”)
else:
print(“b is greater”)
LOOPS in PYTHON
Loop: Execute a set of statements repeatedly until a particular condition is satisfied.
There are two types of loops in python:
1. while loop
2. for loop
while loop: With the while loop we can execute a set of statements as long as a condition is
true. It requires to define an indexing variable.
Example: To print table of number 2
i=2
while i<=20:
print(i)
i+=2
for loop : The for loop iterate over a given sequence (it may be list, tuple or string).
Note: The for loop does not require an indexing variable to set beforehand, as the for command
itself allows for this. primes = [2, 3, 5, 7]
for x in primes:
print(x)
The range( ) function:
it generates a list of numbers, which is generally used to iterate over with for loop. range( )
function uses three types of parameters, which are:
start: Starting number of the sequence.
stop: Generate numbers up to, but not including last number.
step: Difference between each number in the sequence.
Python use range( ) function in three ways:
a. range(stop)
b. range(start, stop)
c. range(start, stop, step)
Note:
All parameters must be integers.
All parameters can be positive or negative.
a. range(stop): By default, It starts from 0 and increments by 1 and ends up to stop, but not
including stop value. Example: for x in range(4): print(x)
Output:
0
1
2
3
b. range(start, stop): It starts from the start value and up to stop, but not including stop value.
Example: for x in range(2, 6): print(x)
Output:
2
3
4
5
c. range(start, stop, step): Third parameter specifies to increment or decrement the value by
adding or subtracting the value.
Example: for x in range(3, 8, 2): print(x)
Output:
3
5
7
Explanation of output: 3 is starting value, 8 is stop value and 2 is step value. First print 3 and
increase it by 2, that is 5, again increase is by 2, that is 7. The output can’t exceed stop-1 value
that is 8 here. So, the output is 3, 5, 8.
JUMP STATEMENTS:
There are two jump statements in python:
break
continue
break statement : With the break statement we can stop the loop even if it is true.
Example:
Note: If the break statement appears in a nested loop, then it will terminate the very loop it is in
i.e. if the break statement is inside the inner loop then it will terminate the inner loop only and
the outer loop will continue as it is.
continue statement : With the continue statement we can stop the current iteration, and
continue with the next iteration.
Example:
Loop else statement:
The else statement of a python loop executes when the loop terminates normally. The else
statement of the loop will not execute when the break statement terminates the loop.
The else clause of a loop appears at the same indentation as that of the loop
keyword while or for.
4.5 Nested Loop :
A loop inside another loop is known as nested loop.
Syntax:
for in :
for in :
statement(s)
statement(s)
Example:
for i in range(1,4):
for j in range(1,i):
print(“*”, end=” “)
print(” “)
