Check for new line character?

[John Roth]

"Yazar Yolait" <yazar at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bnhk76$v3klv$1 at ID-198839.news.uni-berlin.de...
> I want to skip lines in a file that are blank and that start with "&".  So
I
> strip(None) them and then startswith("&") but the only problem is if the
> line has nothing but white space and I strip(None) it then it contains
> nothing but a new line character right?  So how do I  check if the line
> contains a new line character?  I can no longer use isspace().

if line == '\n':
    whatever...

If you're using <file>.readline() to
read the lines, then each line (except the eof signal) ***will*** end
with a newline, and it will not have a newline internally, so there's no
need for a complicated check. After you strip blanks, an all blank
line will contain exactly one character: the newline.

John Roth
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