Tim Peters wrote: > [John Machin, quoting reindent.py docs] >>> remove empty lines at the end of files. Also ensure the last line ends >>> with a newline. > > [John Salerno] >> don't those two things conflict with one another? > > No. This is the repr of a file with (3) empty lines at the end: > > "a file\n\n \n \t \n" > reindent.py changes that to: > > "a file\n" > > This is the repr of a file with no newline at the end: > > "a file" > > reindent.py changes that to: > > "a file\n" > >> or is the newline added after empty lines are removed? > > False dichotomy ;-)
So the line below the last line of the file isn't actually considered an empty line, even though you can move the cursor to it in a text editor? If you have a file that has one line and it ends with a newline, at least in my text editor the cursor then moves down to the next line, but is this just a detail of the way the editor itself works, and nothing to do with the file? (i.e., there is really only one line in the file, not two?) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
