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 …

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 …

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 …

"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 …

@cᴏʟᴅsᴘᴇᴇᴅ If you mean "not only inside of a lambda ", then yes, this does work anywhere. In fact, this is the only way I know for making a one-line if - elif - else, except using an or / and trick.

If you are using elif & and, you might need to rewrite # do something applicable to all condition or other line multiple times. Which is less clean even if the line is just a function call.

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 …

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.

Jan 6, 2016 · Python 2.7 if / elif statement with or Asked 9 years, 11 months ago Modified 5 years, 3 months ago Viewed 33k times