[Tutor] reading strings and calculating totals

[Alan Gauld]

On 31/08/14 19:32, Alex Kleider wrote:

>> total = 0
>> with open('/Users/richarddillon/Desktop/numbers.txt', 'r') as infile:
>>     for line in infile:
>>         total += float(line)
>> print(total)
>
> ..but isn't there a problem if the file contains empty lines?

Yes you are right. And my second reply did point out that
the OP would need to add some lines to catch any such
non-conformities in his data.

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