Control Flow in Python

To make a program do different things for different inputs, we need loops and branches.

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In the first article of this series, we set up python for the rest of the series. In the second article, we introduced some fundamental objects and operators on those objects. At this point, we know enough to make working programs, but these programs can only do one thing. To fix the problem, we need to introduce branches, loops, and…