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• The assignment statement, using a single equals sign =

• The if statement, which conditionally executes a block of code, along with else and elif (a contraction of else if)

• The for statement, which iterates over an iterable object, capturing each element to a local variable for use by the attached block

• The while statement, which executes a block of code as long as boolean condition is true

• The try statement, which allows exceptions raised in its attached code block to be caught and handled by except clauses (or new syntax except* in Python 3.11 for exception groupscite-ref-84[82]); the try statement also ensures that clean-up code in a finally block is always run regardless of how the block exits

• The raise statement, used to raise a specified exception or re-raise a caught exception

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