Newbie question about file input

[Grant Edwards]

On 2004-08-17, Aaron Deskins <ndeskins at ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:

> So why does a linesplit fail after the program reads a blank
> line (or a '\n')?

It doesn't.  It just returns an empty list since there are not
any non-whitespace characters to return.

> Is this simply because there's no way to assign the variable '\n' ?

I don't understand the question.

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