What is best way to check if a list is empty in Python?

The best way is to use not operator on list object. If list is empty it returns true, otherwise false.

>>> L1=[]
>>> not L1
True
>>> L1=[1,2]
>>> not L1
False

Another method is to check if length of list is zero which means it is empty

>>> L1=[]
>>> len(L1)
0
>>> L1=[1,2]
>>> len(L1)
2

Malhar Lathkar

Published on 29-Jan-2018 19:34:56

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