well, somebody's already pointed out that bool(msg)==False iff msg==''. i'm curious to know what's wrong with simply writing
if msg=='': ## do_something -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
well, somebody's already pointed out that bool(msg)==False iff msg==''. i'm curious to know what's wrong with simply writing
if msg=='': ## do_something -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list