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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 14:33:29 +0100
From: Robin Jarry <robin.jarry@6wind.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: fix build with python 3.8
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2019-12-10, Thomas Monjalon:
> 10/12/2019 13:00, Bruce Richardson:
> > On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 10:00:00PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > After upgrading to python-3.8.0, a syntax mismatch is revealed:
> > > 
> > > doc/guides/conf.py:240: SyntaxWarning: "is not" with a literal.
> > >     Did you mean "!="?
> > >     if value is not '':
> > > 
> > > Replacing "is not" with "!=" seems the right thing to do.
> > > 
> > 
> > Since this is basically just checking for an empty string is 
> > "len(value) > 0" not more logical than either comparison against ''?
> 
> Probably yes.
> I don't know what is the best practice in Python. Robin, any clue?

In most cases, it is shorter and cleaner to simply do:

  if value:

which behind the scenes calls value.__bool__() (or value.__len__()).

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__bool__

-- 
Robin