This post explains how to use if statements in Python. This will form the backbone of much of your code going forward! Else statements, nesting, + more.

You're taking a new programming class this fall, and you don't know anything about code. Python is taught widely in schools, and it's one of the most loved programming languages because it's simple.

From my understanding, Python removed this functionality because it causes so many programming errors. What is the Pythonic way to do this?

A proposal under consideration by Python’s development team would finally bring pattern matching statements to the language.