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

[Ben Finney]

Larry Bates <larry.bates at vitalEsafe.com> writes:

> bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
> > xlines = (line for line in open(filename) if line.strip())
> 
> Of if you want to filter/loop at the same time, or if you don't want
> all the lines in memory at the same time

The above implementation creates a generator; so it, too, won't need
to load all the lines in memory at the same time

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Ben Finney