check if bytes is all nulls

[Peter Otten]

Arkadiusz Bulski wrote:

> What would be the most performance efficient way of checking if a bytes is
> all zeros? Currently its `key == b'\x00' * len(key)` however, because its
> Python 2/3 compatible:
> 
> sum(key) == 0 is invalid
> key == bytes(len(key)) is invalid
> 
> I already considered precomputing the rhs value.
> Length of key is unknown, could be few bytes, could be megabytes.

Things you might try:

data = ... bytes ...

(1)

not data.strip(b"\x00")  

Worst case: creates another len(data)-1 byte string

(2)

# preparation
search = re.compile(b"[^\0x00]").search
# actual check
search(data) is not None