How to check whether a file is empty or not

Peter Mortensen

edited 05 Jun, 2021

webminal.org

asked 24 Mar, 2010

I have a text file. How can I check whether it’s empty or not?

Answer

>>> import os
>>> os.stat("file").st_size == 0
True

JavaScript
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>>> import os
>>> os.stat("file").st_size == 0
True
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