How to remove empty lines with re?

Tim Haynes thaynes at openlinksw.com
Fri Oct 10 03:15:20 EDT 2003


"ted" <tedNOSPAM94107 at yahoo.com> writes:

> f = open("old_site/index.html")
> for line in f:
>     line = re.sub(r'^\s+$|\n', '', line)              # }
>     print line                                        # }


If you will set a variable to an empty string and then print it, you will
get an empty line printed ;)

~Tim
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