Checking if elements are empty

[Daniel Larsson]

On 9/5/07, Chris Mellon <arkanes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/5/07, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> > Doran, Harold wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Is there a way to check if the first element of y is null?
> > >
> >
> > len(y[0]) == 0
> >
> > would be the obvious way, assuming "null" means "the null string".
> >
>
> Better spelled as
>
> if y[0]:


Even better spelled as

if not y[0]:

;-)

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