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Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()
(blog.codingconfessions.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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I feel like that only serves the purpose up to the point that methods are not over reaching otherwise then it turns into remembering what a method does for a bunch of unrelated objects.