10/12/2019 13:00, Bruce Richardson: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 10:00:00PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > After upgrading to python-3.8.0, a syntax mismatch is revealed: > > > > doc/guides/conf.py:240: SyntaxWarning: "is not" with a literal. > > Did you mean "!="? > > if value is not '': > > > > Replacing "is not" with "!=" seems the right thing to do. > > > > Since this is basically just checking for an empty string is > "len(value) > 0" not more logical than either comparison against ''?
Probably yes. I don't know what is the best practice in Python. Robin, any clue?