How to check if the string is empty?

Question

Does Python have something like an empty string variable where you can do:

if myString == string.empty:

Regardless, what\'s the most elegan

Answer 1

I once wrote something similar to Bartek's answer and javascript inspired:

def is_not_blank(s):
    return bool(s and s.strip())

Test:

print is_not_blank("")    # False
print is_not_blank("   ") # False
print is_not_blank("ok")  # True
print is_not_blank(None)  # False