Testing for an empty dictionary in Python

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:53:02 -0700
John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
>    What's the cheapest way to test for an empty dictionary in Python?
> 
> 	if len(dict.keys() > 0) :
> 
> is expensive for large dictionaries, and makes loops O(N^2).

Try this:

    if dict:

It should be faster as it only checks whether or not there are
any members and does not run keys() or len() on the dictionary.  Of
course, you should test it.

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