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Java For Python Programmers Edition 2

Section 4.1 Using the Simple if Statement

Conditional statements in Python and Java are very similar. In Python we have three patterns:
In Python the simple if statement is written as:
In Java, this same pattern requires two changes: the condition must be in parentheses (), and the code block must be enclosed in curly braces {}.
Once again you can see that in Java the curly braces define a block rather than indentation. In Java, the parentheses around the condition are required because it is technically a function that evaluates to True or False.
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