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What's a quick one-liner to remove empty lines from a python string?

I have some code in a python string that contains extraneous empty lines. I would like to remove all empty lines from the string. What's the most pythonic way to do this?

Note: I'm not looking for a general code re-formatter, just a quick one or two-liner.

Thanks!

Solution

  • How about:

    text = os.linesep.join([s for s in text.splitlines() if s])

    where text is the string with the possible extraneous lines?