"Elif" seems to have originated with the C preprocessor, which used #elif long before Python AFAICT. Obviously, in that context having a single-token directive is valuable, since parsing #else if <code> …

Feb 14, 2012 · Multiple if's means your code would go and check all the if conditions, where as in case of elif, if one if condition satisfies it would not check other conditions..

Apr 1, 2014 · 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 …

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 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.

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 …

According to the official Python tutorial, only one block of an if..elif..else structure will be executed. Your current if..if..if construct will evaluate all possibilities and execute any that are true.

Jun 18, 2013 · Most efficient way of making an if-elif-elif-else statement when the else is done the most? Asked 12 years, 7 months ago Modified 4 years, 3 months ago Viewed 125k times

But if the chain of the related If's occur inside of a function and each would execute a [return] statement, then the net effect of multiple if's matches using else if. However, it'd still be better practice to use …

Dec 25, 2012 · Is there an easier way of writing an if-elif-else statement so it fits on one line? For example, if expression1: statement1 elif expression2: statement2 else: statement3 Or a real-world