Reading a file

[Calvelo Daniel]

Tim Northover <tim at pnorthover.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
: I'm attempting to read a file line by line with readline(), but it
: seems to return and empty string when EOF is encountered. Is there a
: way of discerning the difference between the end of the file and a
: blank line in the file?

An empty line is never empty: it has \n or \r or both.

: I'm very new to this so I don't know the methods used but I couldn't
: find anything relevant when grepping the html docs.

http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html

Entry 6.30

HTH -- DCA

-- Daniel Calvelo Aros
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