Python If and else statements

Question

Could you use the if and the else statements for words? Or only for numbers?

Answer 1

The condition after if statement can certainly involve a string. For example,

if "am" in "spam":
print("eggs")

checks if the string "am" is a part of the string "spam" (True).

Answer 2

Apart from what Kishalaya Saha mentioned, you can compare strings in if and else statements as well.

if 'a' > 'A':
print(1)

This works perfectly.
Strings are compared character by character based on their ASCII values.

So 'Mary' is greater than 'Mac' as first two characters are equal but 'r' has a greater ASCII value than 'c'. Other operators such as < , >= , <= , == , != work as you would expect them to.

It is also interesting to note that non empty strings (even though it contains only spaces such as ' ' ) by themselves are seen as True where as an empty string (any string with length 0) is False.
For instance,

if 'a' :
print(1) #Output => 1

But

if '':
print(1) #No Output

Answer 3

ok, thanks a lot!!!!