Checking if elements are empty

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-09-08, Wildemar Wildenburger <lasses_weil at klapptsowieso.net> wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>> if y[0]:
>>>> Not a good idea.
>>> Why not?
>> 
>> Because there is a situation where your version of the test
>> will fail even if the first element of y is non-null.
>
> Such as? Seriously people, a little more verbosity wouldn't
> hurt here. This isn't a mystery game.

>>> if "": True
...
>>> if 0: True
...
>>> if []: True
...
>>> if {}: True
...
>>> if None: True
...

That's may not be all the possibilities. Lots of Python objects
can evaluate to false in a boolean context.

-- 
Neil Cerutti
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