don't understand format of if/else statements

[Colin999]

Oh excellent, ok. Can you give me a very brief example of how an elif would work?

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Ok, I think I got it, but I don't know why it adds the next user input line of code when I don't want it to yet?

first_name = input("What is your name? ")

if first_name == "":
    print("Please enter your name: ")

elif first_name.lower() == "steve":
    print("You are the instructor")

else:
    print("Hi " + first_name + " You are a student")

print()

birth_year = input("What year were you born? ")

Output:
What is your name? 
Please enter your name: 
What year were you born?