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

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:06:42 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:

> 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.

No they are important:

In [270]: a = x for x in xrange(10)
------------------------------------------------------------
   File "<ipython console>", line 1
     a = x for x in xrange(10)
             ^
<type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'>: invalid syntax


In [271]: a = (x for x in xrange(10))

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch