then the indented statement gets executed if notnothing happens if statements have the same structure as function definitionsa header followed by an indented body statements like this are called compound statements there is no limit on the number of statements that can appear in the bodybut there has to be at least one occasionallyit is useful to have body with no statements in that caseyou can use the pass statementwhich does nothing if pass need to handle negative values conditional statements conditional statement in python perform different computations or actions depending on whether specific boolean constraint evaluates to true or false conditional statements are handled by if statements in python story of two if'sconsider the following if statementcoded in -like languageif ( qp nowlook at the equivalent statement in the python languageif qp= = what python adds what python removes parentheses are optional if ( if end-of-line is end of statement -like languages python language = end of indentation is end of block why indentation syntaxa few special cases print (