Re: ignoring or replacing white lines in a diff

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Adriaan Renting wrote:

> - print line, did remove the extra newlines, but didn't get rid of the
> blank lines.

You mean you found that

import fileinput
for line in fileinput.FileInput("test.xml", inplace=True):
    if line.strip():
        print line,

does not remove all blank lines? 

If the file contains lone carriage returns try "universal newlines" mode:

for line in fileinput.FileInput("test.xml", inplace=True, mode="U"):
    if line.strip():
        print line,

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problem Shivam Gupta <mailtoshivamgupta@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 21:23 +0530
  Re: problem Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-14 20:01 +0100
    ignoring or replacing white lines in a diff "Adriaan Renting" <renting@astron.nl> - 2016-01-14 21:22 +0100
    Re: ignoring or replacing white lines in a diff Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 14:54 -0600
    Re: ignoring or replacing white lines in a diff Nathan Hilterbrand <nhilterbrand@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 15:57 -0500
    Re: ignoring or replacing white lines in a diff "Martin A. Brown" <martin@linux-ip.net> - 2016-01-14 12:57 -0800
    Re: ignoring or replacing white lines in a diff Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-01-14 22:05 +0100
    Re: problem Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 08:10 +1100
    Re: problem eryk sun <eryksun@gmail.com> - 2016-01-14 15:39 -0600
    Re: ignoring or replacing white lines in a diff "Adriaan Renting" <renting@astron.nl> - 2016-01-15 10:44 +0100
    Re: ignoring or replacing white lines in a diff Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-01-15 11:20 +0100

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