Keep getting error when argument is [1, 2, 2]

Question

def is_ascending(items):
  if len(items) == 0 or 1:
    return True
  for i in range(len(items) - 1):
    if items[i] >= items[i + 1]:
      return False
  return True

Answer 1

if len(items) == 0 or 1:

This snippet doesn't do what you think it does. It's essentially evaluated like

if (len(items) == 0) or (1):

which is always True since the part after the "or" is True (so the whole function returns True. What you want is

if (len(items) == 0) or (len(items) == 1):

or simpler

if len(items) <= 1: