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From: Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net>
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Subject: Re: checking if a list is empty
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 15:05:45 +0100
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On 11 May 2011 12:14:46 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
  <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
:  Not knowing that you can write "if x" instead of "if x == []" is like not 
:  knowing that you can write 
: 
:      elif condition
: 
:  instead of 
: 
:      else:
:          if condition

My concern was with the reader and not the writer.

What could elif mean other than else: if?

if x could, for instance,  mean "if x is defined".


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:-- Hans Georg