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Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 02:36:26 -0400
Subject: checking if a list is empty
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Hi,

If I want to check if a list is empty, which is the more pythonic way?

li = []

(1) if len(li) == 0:
...
or
(2) if not li:
...

Thanks,

Laszlo