I figured readers could fill in the relevant blanks. Updated example: if something: value = do something else: if something_else: v

I figured readers could fill in the relevant blanks. Updated example: if something: value = do something else: if something_else: value = do something else else: value = do a third thing As I said in my initial post, "it helps once you have nested ifs, and multiple lines of code." Here's the change: if something: return do something if something_else: return do something else return do a third thing Again, what I'm stressing here is that if you already have your result, you can return, and it makes the code easier to follow than adding a superfluous "else:" statement.