Chapter Summary

That concludes our quick look at Python statement syntax. This chapter introduced the general rules for coding statements and blocks of code. As you’ve learned, in Python we normally code one statement per line and indent all the statements in a nested block the same amount (indentation is part of Python’s syntax). However, we also looked at a few exceptions to these rules, including continuation lines and single-line tests and loops. Finally, we put these ideas to work in an interactive script that demonstrated a handful of statements and showed statement syntax in action.

In the next chapter, we’ll start to dig deeper by going over each of Python’s basic procedural statements in depth. As you’ll see, though, all statements follow the same general rules introduced here.