["python"]
python: how to check if a line is an empty line

Trying to figure out how to write an if cycle to check if a line is empty. The file has many strings, and one of these is a blank line to separate from the other statements (not a ""; is a carriage return followed by another carriage return I think) new statement asdasdasd asdasdasdasd new statement asdasdasdasd asdasdasdasd Since I am using the file input module, is there a way to check if a line is empty? Using this code it seems to work, thanks everyone! for line in x: if line == '\n': print "found an end of line" x.close()
If you want to ignore lines with only whitespace: if line.strip(): ... do something The empty string is a False value. Or if you really want only empty lines: if line in ['\n', '\r\n']: ... do something