Don't use len() to test emptiness vs not emptiness

Meson has a common pattern of using 'if len(foo) == 0:' or
'if len(foo) != 0:', however, this is a common anti-pattern in python.
Instead tests for emptiness/non-emptiness should be done with a simple
'if foo:' or 'if not foo:'

Consider the following:
>>> import timeit
>>> timeit.timeit('if len([]) == 0: pass')
0.10730923599840025
>>> timeit.timeit('if not []: pass')
0.030033907998586074
>>> timeit.timeit('if len(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']) == 0: pass')
0.1154778649979562
>>> timeit.timeit("if not ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']: pass")
0.08259823200205574
>>> timeit.timeit('if len("") == 0: pass')
0.089759664999292
>>> timeit.timeit('if not "": pass')
0.02340641999762738
>>> timeit.timeit('if len("foo") == 0: pass')
0.08848102600313723
>>> timeit.timeit('if not "foo": pass')
0.04032287199879647

And for the one additional case of 'if len(foo.strip()) == 0', which can
be replaced with 'if not foo.isspace()'
>>> timeit.timeit('if len("   ".strip()) == 0: pass')
0.15294511600222904
>>> timeit.timeit('if "   ".isspace(): pass')
0.09413968399894657
>>> timeit.timeit('if len("   abc".strip()) == 0: pass')
0.2023209120015963
>>> timeit.timeit('if "   abc".isspace(): pass')
0.09571301700270851

In other words, it's always a win to not use len(), when you don't
actually want to check the length.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ghwt.py b/ghwt.py
index bb0be70..d04cd3f 100755
--- a/ghwt.py
+++ b/ghwt.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def install(sproj):
     return unpack(sproj, branch, sproj_dir)
 
 def run(args):
-    if len(args) == 0 or args[0] == '-h' or args[0] == '--help':
+    if not args or args[0] == '-h' or args[0] == '--help':
         print(sys.argv[0], 'list/install', 'package_name')
         return 1
     command = args[0]