But the first example does the same thing for an empty list. I guess the lesson is that if you’re measuring the speed of arbitrary stylistic syntax choices, maybe Python isn’t the best language for you.
antlion
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Could also compare against:
if not len(mylist)
That way this version isn’t evaluating two functions. The bool evaluation of an integer is false when zero, otherwise true.
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