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0 Now this conditional block happens to be a inside a function, but it can also be outside a function 1

such as this. 2

And let's say 3

3 > 1 print greater. 4

Else print 5

not greater and you'll get greater. 6

What a conditional block checks is actually checks 7

if this is true, so True it's actually another type in Python just like integers, and lists, and strings 8

true is another type, so that is actually the equivalent of if true print greater. 9

Else print not greater. 10

So true is always true. 11

Similarly type 3 for example equals to int will return true. 12

So that's what we are doing here as well. 13

However there is another way which is considered better in Python to use 14

isinstance, isinstance, value and you want to check for dictionaries here like that, executes and you're 15

going to get the same output. 16

So isinstance(3, int) will get you the same output. 17

You can use either one but for some advanced reasons which I'm not going to explain right now because 18

it's out of the context at this point of the course is better to use isinstance. 19

You saw this example where I used if 3 is greater than 1 and I printed out great and not greater. 20

So we could also have these three cases like three is greater than one. 21

Three is equal to one and three is less than one. 22

In that case if and else is not enough, we need something else, and I'm going to show you all we can do 23

that in the next video.