stripping spaces in front of line

[Peter Otten]

eight02645999 at yahoo.com wrote:

> f = open("textfile","rU")
> while (1):
>         line = f.readline().strip()
>         if line == '':
>                 break
>         print line
> f.close()

Be warned that your code doesn't read the whole file if that file contains
lines with only whitespace characters. If you want to print every line,
change the loop to

while 1:
    line = f.readline()
    if line == "":
        break
    print line.strip()

i. e. don't strip() the line until you have tested for an empty string. The
idiomatic way to loop over the lines in a file is

for line in f:
    print line.strip()

Peter