Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed1.swip.net!uio.no!nntp.uib.no!svn.schaathun.net!not-for-mail From: Hans Georg Schaathun Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: checking if a list is empty Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:47:42 +0100 Organization: University of Bergen Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <9hYwp.5805$xo2.3333@newsfe07.iad> <4dc502c7$0$29991$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vannskorpion.bccs.uib.no X-Trace: toralf.uib.no 1305110164 81490 129.177.20.20 (11 May 2011 10:36:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uib.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 May 2011 10:36:04 GMT User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:5103 On Sat, 07 May 2011 21:57:13 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: : If you're going to use a language, and use it well, you have to learn : how that language works. And if the world evolves around the compiler and you, that advice suffices. However, programming is often as much about developing ideas in a large and complex community, where perfect universal mastery of one language is not an option, because half the community do not normally use that language or aren't really programmers at all. The less you assume about the skill of the reader, the better it is. -- :-- Hans Georg