The elif statement is very convenient.

elif语句非常方便。

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The result is an else if statement, which is shortened to elif, as demonstrated in Listing 6.

结果是一个else if语句，简写为elif，如清单6所示。

And then it has a strange thing called ELIF, which is simply short for else/if in a second test.

然后代码做了一个奇怪的,叫做ELIF的事情，也就是else/if的简写,这是第二个测试。

This example includes only one elif statement, but in practice you can include as many as the program needs.

本例只包含一个 elif 语句，而实际中可根据程序需要包含任意多个。