[Tutor] Pythonese/Efficiency/Generalese critique please

Liam Clarke cyresse at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 15:29:39 CEST 2005


> 
> > There is no need for the if(dlst); if the list is empty the iteration 
> will do nothing. You can write this as
> > for dlf in os.listdir(pname):
> 
> Though it is quite distant, there is an else statement which makes
> the if construct a requierement.
> 
> Javier



You could just do - 

if not len(dlst):
#Your else code block here

for dlf in os.listdir(pname):

and so forth.



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