Checking if elements are empty

[Doran, Harold]

Dear list:

Suppose I have a string as follows

x = '  \t'ff'

I can split this up as

y = x.split('\t')

Which gives

[ '  ', 'ff']

len(y)
2

Is there a way to check if the first element of y is null?

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