Question

I have large string which I split by newlines.
How can I remove all lines that are empty, (whitespace only)?

pseudo code:

for stuff in largestring:
   remove stuff that is blank

Answer 1

Using regex:

if re.match(r'^\s*$', line):
    # line is empty (has only the following: \t\n\r and whitespace)

Using regex + filter():

filtered = filter(lambda x: not re.match(r'^\s*$', x), original)

As seen on codepad.