Python Pocket Reference, Second Edition

Specific Statements

The following sections describe all Python statements. Each section lists the statement’s syntax formats, followed by usage details. For compound statements, each appearance of a suite in a statement format stands for one or more other statements, possibly indented as a block under a header line. A suite must be indented under a header if it contains another compound statement (if, while, etc.); otherwise, it can appear on the same line as the statement header. The following are both valid constructs:

if x < 42:
    print x
    while x: x = x -1

if x < 42: print x