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:

Comparison operator	Example	Description
`==`	`if a == b:`	Is `a` equal to `b`?
`!=`	`if a != b:`	Is `a` different from `b`?
`<`	`if a < b:`	Is `a` less than `b`?
`>`	`if a > b:`	Is `a` greater than `b`?
`<=`	`if a <= b:`	Is `a` less than or equal to `b`?
`>=`	`if a >= b:`	Is `a` greater than or equal to `b`?

Challenge

Given two numbers, print the maximum out of those.

Input	Output
10 54	54
7 5	7

Challenge

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