Remove empty lines

[Kristin Skoglund]

Hi

I am trying to make a script that reads javafiles and remove comments
and empty lines. The script looks like this......

def removestuff(file):

    infilename=file

    infile=open(infilename, 'r')

    copyfile=infilename +".bak"

    newfile=open(copyfile,'w')

    str = infile.read()

    str=re.sub(r"/\*\*\n.*\n*\*/|/\*\n.*|\*.*|\s*/\s*"," ",str) #This strips away comments

    lines=re.split("\n",str)

    for line in lines:   # Here I try to remove the emty lines

        if line== '':

            continue

        elif empty:

            continue

        else:

            tmp.append(line)

            newfile.write(line)

    infile.close()

    newfile.close()

...and everything works except the removal of empty lines. Does anyone
knoe whats wrong?

Kristin