How do I kill an empty file ??

[Fredrik Lundh]

"bowman" wrote:
> os.stat(file) will yeild a tuple including st_size. the stat module defines
> indices, so
>
> if  os.stat(file)[ST_SIZE] == 0:
>     pass
>
> or somesuch

os.path.getsize does the same thing, but is a bit
easier to use:

    os.path.getsize(file)

    if not os.path.getsize(file):
        pass

...but in this case, it might be easier to load the file
and just don't do anything if it's empty:

    for file in files:
        data = open(file).readlines()
        if not data:
            continue
        ... prepare to process file ...
        for line in data:
            ... process line in file ...

Cheers /F