Checking for empty list

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I came across this code to check if a list is empty:

if not a:
  print("List is empty")

Please explain how this code works.

Apr 24, 2018 in Python by jeff
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Empty objects in python by default have their boolean values set to False
answered Apr 24, 2018 by Nietzsche's daemon
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