[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
> i have a file test.dat eg
>
> abcdefgh
> ijklmn
> <-----newline
> opqrs
> tuvwxyz
>
>
> I wish to print the contents of the file such that it appears:
> abcdefgh
> ijklmn
> opqrs
> tuvwxyz
>
> here is what i did:
> f = open("test.dat")
> while 1:
> line = f.readline().rstrip("\n")
> if line == '':
> break
break terminates the loop, so no more lines will be processed. Use
continue, which ends only the current iteration of the loop. (Though you
will need a separate test to terminate the loop when there are no more
lines.)
You can iterate an open file directly; here is a shorter version:
for line in open('test.dat'):
line = line.rstrip('\n')
if line:
print line
Kent
> print line
>
> but it always give me first 2 lines, ie
> abcdefgh
> ijklmn
>
> What can i do to make it print all w/o the newlines..? and what is the
> proper way to skip printing blank lines while iterating file contents?
>
> thanks
>
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