Alexander Williams thantos at chancel.org
Fri Feb 25 04:26:33 EST 2000

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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:49:15 +0100, Milos Prudek <prudek at nembv.cz> wrote:
>>     A = H.readlines()
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>Yeah, but I need to remove empty lines as well...

Try:

   >>> A = filter(None, H.readlines())

filter() with None as the function to use as the test for elements
removes any that test as False intrinsically; since the empty line is
always False, it returns a list with only strings with length.  Bingo.

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