checking if a list is empty

[Hans Georg Schaathun]

On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:59:34 -0400, Prasad, Ramit
  <ramit.prasad at jpmchase.com> wrote:
:  Fair enough. I am a sheep, so I do what other (more knowledgeable)
: people do. It is a fair assumption (for my specific code writing 
: environments) that everyone who is going to read my code understands 
: "if x:" notation or is expected to learn enough Python to understand it.

That's fair enough.  You know your code, so it is probably true.
It would not be true for the code I am writing.

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:-- Hans Georg