On 11 May 2011 12:14:46 GMT, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: : Not knowing that you can write "if x" instead of "if x == []" is like not : knowing that you can write : : elif condition : : instead of : : else: : if condition
My concern was with the reader and not the writer. What could elif mean other than else: if? if x could, for instance, mean "if x is defined". -- :-- Hans Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list