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Now, this conditional block happens to be

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inside a function, but it can also

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be outside a function such as this.

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And let's say 3 greater than 1, print("Greater"), else

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print("Not greater"), and you'll get Greater.

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What a conditional block checks is

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actually, checks if this is true.

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So true is actually another type in Python.

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Just like integers and lists and

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strings, true is another type.

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So that is actually the equivalent of, if

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True, print("Greater") else print("Not greater").

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So True is always True.

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Similarly, type(3), for example, equals

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to int will return True.

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So that's what we are doing here as well.

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However, there is another way which

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is considered better in Python.

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To use isinstance, isinstance(value),

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and you want to check for dictionaries here, like that.

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Execute and you're going to get the same output.

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So isinstance(3, int) will get you the same output.

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You can use either one,

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but for some advanced reasons, which I'm not going to explain

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right now, because it's out of the context at this point

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of the course, it's better to use isinstance.

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Now, you saw this example where I used if 3 is

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greater than 1, and I printed out Greater and Not greater.

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So we could also have these three cases.

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Like 3 is greater than 1, 3 is equal

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to 1, and 3 is less than 1.

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In that case, if and else is

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not enough, we need something else.

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And I'm going to show you how we

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can do that in the next video.

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