What are compound statements?

Q. What are compound statements?

Answer :-

A compound statement represents a group of statements executed as a unit. The component statements of Python are written in a specific pattern as shown below:

<compound statement header> :
    <indented body containing multiple simple and/or compound statements>

That is a compound statement has :

• A header line which begins with a keyword and ends with a colon.
• A body consisting of one or more Python statements, each indented inside the header line. All statements in the body are at the same level of indentation.