Lesson 3
Discovering your Paths
Chapter 3: If statements
Multi-way selection
We have also looked at how you can nest a selection block inside another selection block.
if user_guess == 42:
print("Correct")
else:
if user_guess < 42:
print("Too low")
else:
print("Too high")
But this might get a bit too messy and hard to read if you overdo it.
if user_guess == 42:
print("Correct")
else:
if user_guess == 41:
print("Very very very close")
else:
if user_guess == 40:
print("Very very close")
else:
if user_guess == 39:
print("Very close")
else:
if user_guess == 38:
print("Close")
else:
if user_guess == 37:
print("Close-ish")
else:
...
Python offers a more elegant solution for this: a multi-way selection statement.
if user_guess == 42:
print("Correct")
elif user_guess == 41:
print("Very very very close")
elif user_guess == 40:
print("Very very close")
else:
print("Incorrect")
elif means “else if”. It’s just shorter (aligns better with else)!