Reading in a generic text file with blank lines, i.e. no tabs, no spaces along some lines. I want to use these blank lines as a delimiter to process the files in the program, but I cannot stop them from being stripped while reading in the file.
I have been trying to use genfromtxt:
data = np.genfromtxt(path, encoding = "utf-8-sig", dtype = str, delimiter = "none", autostrip = False)
with no success: I cannot figure out how to maybe replace the blank lines with something else, or to keep them as an empty string (notice from the line of code I am trying to read in each line of the text file as one string).
Maybe regex or pandas is more useful? I have tried but cannot make use of them.
To finally re-iterate problem: I want to read in a text file with completely blank lines, and keep said blank lines in the resulting array of strings, without adding anything to the text files pre-reading in.
Let me know if any more information would be useful, or point me to a question I've potentially duplicated. Thanks.
with open(path, 'r', encoding='utf-8-sig') as f:
data = f.readlines()