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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:09:31 -0700
Subject: Re: suppressing import errors
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's idiomatic to write "x is None" when you want to know whether x is None.

It's also idiomatic to just write "if x:" when you want to know
whether x is something or nothing, and that's what I would probably do
here.  Either is correct.