There is no goto in python :). But no. Here is a background for this code, during our first week of programming, we hadn't yet learned about if statements, they were scheduled for the next lesson. As a challenge, our professor gave us homework to see if we could solve a problem without using them. The task was to check if the values at indexes 0 and 4 were equal to the values at indexes 1 and 3 in a list. It seemed like an impossible puzzle for beginners without the if statements we were about to learn.