How to remove blank lines from a .txt file in Python

Hello programmers, in this tutorial, we will learn how to remove blank lines from a .txt file in Python.

We can remove blank lines from a .txt file by using the strip() function.

strip(): strip() function checks whether there is a leading and tailing blank or spaces, removes those spaces, and returns the character.

To show you this, we will first create a sample .txt file which going to consist of a lot of blank lines. Then we will find out how to remove the blank lines easily.

#Creating a .txt file
with open('new_file.txt', 'w') as f:
f.write('CodeSpeedy \n\n Technology \n\n\n Private \n\n\n Limited \n\n is \n\n an \n\n Information \n\n         technology \n\n company')
f = open("new_file.txt", "r")
print(f.read())

output:

CodeSpeedy 

 Technology 


 Private 


 Limited 

 is 

 an 

 Information 

 technology 

 company

 

• Then we open that file, and we create a new text file using  “write” method to store characters that do not contain any blank lines.
• For this 1st we have to run a for loop which read lines from the text file and then we use the conditional statement “if” to check if there is a blank line or not using strip() function.
• strip() function removes those blank lines and stores those characters into a new text file with the help of the write() method.
• At last, we print our new text file which has no blank lines.

# opening and creating new .txt file
with open("new_file.txt", 'r') as r, open('file.txt', 'w') as o:
    for line in r:
        #strip() function
        if line.strip():
            o.write(line)
f = open("file.txt", "r")
print("New text file:\n",f.read())

Output:

New text file:
 CodeSpeedy 
 Technology 
 Private 
 Limited 
 is 
 an 
 Information 
 technology 
 company