bruno at modulix wrote: > Now if what you want to do is just to rewrite the file without the blank > files, you need to use a second file: > > fin = open(path, 'r') > fout = open(temp, 'w') > for line in fin: > if line.strip(): > fout.write(line) > fin.close() > fout.close() > > then delete path and rename temp, and you're done. And yes, this is > actually the canonical way to do this !-)
Thanks, that's what I want. Seems a little strange, but at least you showed me that line.strip() is far better than line == '\n' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list