import timeit
myList = [(), (), ('',), ('c', 'e'), ('ca', 'ea'), ('d',), ('do',), ('dog', 'ear', 'eat', 'cat', 'car'), ('dogs', 'cars', 'done', 'eats', 'cats', 'ears'), ('don',)]
print(timeit.timeit('list(filter(None, myList))', 'from __main__ import myList'))
print(timeit.timeit('[t for t in myList if t]', 'from __main__ import myList'))
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