How To Check If a List Is Empty in Python
How To Check If a List Is Empty in Python

Learn multiple techniques to check for an empty list

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There are many options to check if a list is empty. Before getting into the syntax of the solutions, let’s lay out the different factors involved in deciding which method we want to use.

The expression we craft can fall into one of two camps, an explicit comparison to an empty list or an implicit evaluation of an empty list. What does that mean?
['Jonathan Hsu']
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