[Tutor] If/elif/else when a list is empty

[James Mills]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:58 PM,  <aeneas24 at priest.com> wrote:
> rgenre = re.split(r';', rf.info["genre"]) # When movies have genre

First question. Why are you not using an XML parser (it looks like
your IMDB data files _are_ XML). e.g: elementree (in the standard
library).

>    else len(rgenre)<1: # I was hoping this would take care of the "there is
> no genre information" scenario but it doesn't
>            rg1=rg2=rg3="NA"

the "else" statement does not expect (nor accept) an expression after
it, just write:

else:
   ...

cheers
James

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