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Im working on a very long project, i have everything done with it, but in the file he wants us to read at the bottom there are empty spaces, legit just blank spaces that we aren't allowed to delete, to work on the project i deleted them because i have no idea how to get around it, so my current open/read looks like this
file = open("C:\\Users\\bh1337\\Documents\\2015HomicideLog_FINAL.txt" , "r")
lines=file.readlines()[1:]
file.close()
What do i need to add to this to ignore blank lines? or to stop when it gets to a blank line?
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In Python 2 use itertools. ifilter if you want a generator and in Python 3, just pass the whole thing to list if you want a list.
There are many ways in which you can skip a line in python. Some methods are: if, continue, break, pass, readlines(), and slicing.
If you want to skip all whitespace lines, you should use this test: ' '. isspace() . Beware: This method is likely to clobber files having newlines inside quoted fields. In this case the number of lines in the file is not comparable to the number of delimited records.
Extra blank lines may be used (sparingly) to separate groups of related functions. Blank lines may be omitted between a bunch of related one-liners (e.g. a set of dummy implementations). Use blank lines in functions, sparingly, to indicate logical sections. Python accepts the control-L (i.e.
You can check if they are empty:
file = open('filename')
lines = [line for line in file.readlines() if line.strip()]
file.close()
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