On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Todd Matsumoto <tmatsum...@gmx.net> wrote:
> The while loop will print each index of the list. No it's printing each element of the list, not the index. > In a way it checks that if the list is empty by printing the items. As far > as I know there isn't any 'True' or 'False' output from a list. > I'm not sure what you mean here because... > > If you want to do something if mylist is empty you can check it like this: > > if not mylist: > An "if" statement checks a boolean state so the list must be evaluating to a boolean somehow. (It does, it's False if it's empty and True otherwise). -Luke
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