Angus Rodgers wrote: > 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
line > seems to be treated as a single character. Yes, but "\n"[1:] will return an empty string rather than fail. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
