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Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() (blog.codingconfessions.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

if not x then … end is very common in Lua for similar purposes, very rarely do you see hard nil comparisons or calls to typeof (last time I did was for a serializer).