On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:02:47 +0200, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>Angus Rodgers wrote: > >> On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:39:28 +0100, I asked rhetorically: >> >>>Will your program handle empty lines of input correctly? >> >> Strangely enough, it seems to do so, but why? > >Because there aren't any. When you read lines from a file there will always >be at least the newline character. Otherwise it would indeed fail: > >>>> for line in "peter\npaul\n\nmary".splitlines(): >... print line[0].upper() + line[1:] >... >Peter >Paul >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module> >IndexError: string index out of range Hmm ... the \r\n sequence at the end of a Win/DOS file seems to be treated as a single character. -- Angus Rodgers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
