From [pep8](http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#programming-recommendations),

> Also, beware of writing if x when you really mean if x is not None -- e.g. when testing whether a variable or argument that defaults to None was set to some other value. The other value might have a type (such as a container) that could be false in a boolean context!


Bt ok, you can also decide to be more explicit.