Doesn’t Python treat all empty iterables as false tho? This isn’t unique to python, is it? (though I’m not a programmer…just a dude who writes scripts every now and then)
My point is that the second statement you presented can have the effect of evaluating emptiness of a Sequence (note: distinct from an Iterable), but that only holds true if the target of the conditional IS a sequence. I’m underlining the semantic difference that was elided as a result of falsey evaluation.
Doesn’t Python treat all empty iterables as false tho? This isn’t unique to python, is it? (though I’m not a programmer…just a dude who writes scripts every now and then)
My point is that the second statement you presented can have the effect of evaluating emptiness of a Sequence (note: distinct from an Iterable), but that only holds true if the target of the conditional IS a sequence. I’m underlining the semantic difference that was elided as a result of falsey evaluation.