Re: Removing line breaks

[dman <dman@dman.ddts.net>]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 04:58:31AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 02:31:06PM -0600, dman wrote:
 
| > #!/usr/bin/env python
| > 
| > import sys
| > p = []
| > for line in sys.xreadlines() :
| >     l = line.strip() # strip all leading and trailing whitespace
| >     if l :
| >         p.append( l )
| >     else :
| >         print " ".join( p )
| >         # uncomment the next line if you want a blank line in between paragraphs.
| >         #print
| >         p = []
| 
| You'll probably miss the last paragraph that way, although I haven't
| tested yours either. :)

Hmm, yeah, unless there is at least one blank line after the last
paragraph.

| (Do you mean sys.stdin.xreadlines()?)

Yeah.

-D

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