On Apr 20, 2:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings! > > I've just started learning python, so this is probably one of those > obvious questions newbies ask. > > Is there any way in python to check if a text file is blank? > > What I've tried to do so far is: > > f = file("friends.txt", "w") > if f.read() is True: > """do stuff""" > else: > """do other stuff""" > f.close() > > What I *mean* to do in the second line is to check if the text file is > not-blank. But apparently that's not the way to do it. > > Could someone set me straight please?
I use os.path.getsize(path) for this purpose. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list