In a text file: how do I tell the EOF, from a blank line?

[Steve Holden]

walterbyrd wrote:
> How do I test for the end of a file, in such a why that python can
> tell the EOF from a blank line?
> 
Only when the EOF is reached will you read an entirely empty line. Real 
empty lines read as a newline terminator.

However, there are any better ways to process the lines of a file than 
reading it line by line. For example you can iterate over the lines with 
something like

   f = open("myfile.txt", 'r')
   for line in f:
     ... do something with line ...

regards
  Steve
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