From 994e527b23f376c785b8d37b048cdbd12ff52df7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:48:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added despace.py for removing excessive blank lines

---
 misc/despace.py | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 misc/despace.py

diff --git a/misc/despace.py b/misc/despace.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b7b6522
--- /dev/null
+++ b/misc/despace.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import sys
+
+consecutive_blanks = 0
+for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
+    line = line.rstrip()
+    if len(line) == 0:
+        consecutive_blanks += 1
+        if consecutive_blanks <= 3:
+            print line
+    else:
+        consecutive_blanks = 0
+        print line
-- 
2.26.2