最近在看《Effective Python》,里面提到判断字符串或者集合是否为空的原则,原文如下:
Don’t check for empty values (like
[]
or''
) by checking the length (if len(somelist) == 0
). Useif not somelist
and assume empty values implicity evaluate toFalse
.
意即,不要通过取字符串或者集合的长度来判断是否为空,而是要用not
关键字来判断,因为当字符串或集合为空时,其值被隐式地赋为False
.
例子如下
>>> somestr=''
>>> sometuple=()
>>> somelist=[]
>>> somedict={}
>>> not somestr
True
>>> not sometuple
True
>>> not somelist
True
>>> not somedict
True
>>>
Ps. 集合包括list
, tuple
, dict