else statements

In some situations, we would like to do certain things if a condition holds and do something else if it doesn’t. Python allows that through else statements:

a = int(input())
b = int(input())

if a == b:
    print('YES')
else:
    print('NO')

This program prints YES if the inputted two values match, and NO otherwise.

Note that the contents of both if and else statements are indented with 4 spaces. Besides, both statements end with a colon :.

Note that checking if two values are equal is done through the double == sign. A single = sign is used for assignment, while a double == sign is used to check if two values are equal.

Here is the list of all the possible comparison conditions available in Python:

Challenge

Given two numbers, print the maximum out of those.