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Not able to read blank lines and spaces on a small text file

Pierre Fortin pfortin at pfortin.com
Mon Sep 13 11:06:47 EDT 2004 
On 13 Sep 2004 07:48:14 -0700 Ruben wrote:

> I am trying to read a small text file using the readline statement. I
> can only read the first 2 records from the file. It stops at the blank
> lines or at lines with only spaces. I have a while statement checking
> for an empty string "" which I understand represents an EOF in Python.
> The text file has some blank lines with spaces and other with blanks.

An empty record is not the same as "no record"...

Change this:

> while record != "":

to:

while record:
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