On 2016-12-30 19:59, Deborah Swanson wrote: > Similar, actually the same as Cameron suggested. I really need to > revisit testing for empty. I probably rejected it early on for some > bad reason (you don't understand everything that goes wrong when > you're learning).
If your data is anything like what I often get, it had spaces in it, and x = " " if x: print("yep") else: print("nope") prints "yep". So when processing data like this, I prefer to take a cleaning pass over everything to strip out leading/trailing whitespace before attempting to use any logic on it. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list