10/12/2019 14:33, Robin Jarry: > 2019-12-10, Thomas Monjalon: > > 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? > > In most cases, it is shorter and cleaner to simply do: > > if value: > > which behind the scenes calls value.__bool__() (or value.__len__()). > > https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__bool__
I guess it works also with python 2? I am sending a v2 with this syntax, thanks.