From: Ivan Frade <ivan.frade@nokia.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:01:43 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: convenience function to check is an string is empty
X-Git-Tag: mussorgsky-0.4-1~8
X-Git-Url: https://vcs.maemo.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e773ae69040caba55ffa397d3ebf3d60adf5b3cf;hp=8f9a85474f01752f8781bab658c80b0925949415;p=mussorgsky

convenience function to check is an string is empty
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diff --git a/src/utils.py b/src/utils.py
index ae3a4ad..daffb06 100644
--- a/src/utils.py
+++ b/src/utils.py
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ def escape_html (text, max_length=40):
         text = text [0:cutpoint] + "..."
     return gobject.markup_escape_text (text)
 
+def is_empty (text):
+    return not text or len (text.strip ()) == 0
 
 # Set socket timeout
 import socket