Is there a better/simpler way to filter blank lines?

[Ben Finney]

Falcolas <garrickp at gmail.com> writes:

> Using the surrounding parentheses creates a generator object

No. Using the generator expression syntax creates a generator object.

Parentheses are irrelevant to whether the expression is a generator
expression. The parentheses merely group the expression from
surrounding syntax.

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