One liner to determine if dictionary values are all empty lists or not

Question

I have a dict as follows:

someDict = {\'a\':[], \'b\':[]}

I want to determine if this dictionary has any values which are not empty lists.

Answer 1

Not falsey or not empty lists:

Not falsey:

any(someDict.values())

Not empty lists:

any(a != [] for a in someDict.values())

or

any(map(lambda x: x != [], someDict.values()))

Or if you are ok with a falsey return value:

filter(lambda x: x != [], someDict.values())

Returns a list of items that are not empty lists, so if they are all empty lists it's an empty list :)