Find out if layers are empty

Question

Is there a better way, other than looping every object, of finding out if a range of layers are empty?

import bpy

layer_range = [1,2,3,4,11,12,13,14]
print("---------")
layer_range_break = False
for obj in bpy.context.scene.objects:
    for layer_number in layer_range:
        if obj.layers[layer_number]:        
            print("Object on bad layer")
            layer_range_break = True
            break
        else:
            print(obj.name)

    if layer_range_break:
        break

Answer 1

Using pythons's any and all

In general, code like in your question can be shortened considerably using ptython's any or all methods. any is True if any item in a list is True, and all returns True if all are True.

In this case using any to determine if any object in the scene is on a designated layer. any(o.layers[l] for l in layer_range) emulates your inner loop break.

import bpy
context = bpy.context
scene = context.scene
layer_range = [1,2,3,4,11,12,13,14]

dirty = any(any(o.layers[l] for l in layer_range)
            for o in scene.objects)        

print("Layer Range is dirty:", dirty)

PS: not sure this is "better", it is IMO more readable.