[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> what is the correct way to represent blank lines in python (while
> iterating a file) without regexp? I know one way is to use
> re.search((line,r'^$') to grab a blank line, but i wanna try not to use
> regexp...
> is it
> 1) if line == ''": dosomething() (this also means EOF right? )
> 2) if line is None: dosomething()
> 3) if not line: dosomething()
> thanks
if line == "\n": # look for a single newline
dosomething()
or
if not line:
... end of file ...
elif not line.strip(): # look for lines with nothing but whitespace
dosomething()
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