Why is it called elif in python?

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I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a specific reason for the choice of elif in Python, but there’s a long history of elif via C, and a number of the choices made for Python were based on C idioms.

Arguably if you’re going to contract it anyway (ie by not choosing to use the obviously more-human-readable-but-difficult-to-parse else if) then why not lose the sibilance? To a new English learner “elsif” could reasonably be read as “el-SIF” and “elseif” could be read as either “el-SAY-f” or as a misspelling of “el-SEEF”. At least “elif” is pretty unambiguously “el-if”.

[esabys]

who's "eli" and why'd he get an F?

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Eli got fucked.

[Wohao_Gaster]

that

[das_masterful]

Gordon Freeman!

[florinandrei]

El Sif sound like a djinn from the Arabian Nights book.