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Creature Sorting: Real if Statements

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If you did Creature Sorting, you already know how AND, OR, and NOT work. Python uses the exact same logic. The only thing that changes is the spelling: instead of the AP-style AND, OR, NOT, Python writes and, or, not, in lowercase. Everything else, including the inclusive OR and the way NOT only touches what comes right after it, works identically.

A real if statement in Python looks like this:

if has_hat and not striped:
    print("This one gets a ribbon.")

That line is only true (and only prints the ribbon message) for a creature that has a hat and isn’t striped. Same rules, real code.