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Santosh Kumar wrote:

> I am in a problem.
> 
>     words = line.split(' ')
> 
> preserve whitespaces but the problem is it writes an additional line
> after every line.

Strip off the newline at the end of the line with:

line = line.rstrip("\n")
words = line.split(" ")