Re: What way is the best to check an empty list?

[Michiel Overtoom]

On 25 Mar 2009, at 21:29 , Stef Mientki wrote:

Now it would be nice to allow iteration over others too, like None .
   a = None
   for item in a :
         do_something_with_item

I saw this technique used in CherryPy:

>>> a=None
>>> for item in a or []:
...    print item
...
>>> a=[1,2,3]
>>> for item in a or []:
...     print item
...
1
2
3
>>>



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