commit 0c71a66b53f6ea262aa5a60784c8c625ae0bb98c
author idomic <michael.ido@gmail.com> Sat Sep 19 15:13:29 2020 -0400
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Sat Sep 19 22:13:29 2020 +0300
tree 496b2a1bdaedda9a2fd849a8c4ffb8688b14b98c
parent ae0d2a33ec05aece939a959d36fcf1df1e210a08

bpo-33689: Blank lines in .pth file cause a duplicate sys.path entry (GH-20679)

Lib/site.py

diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
index 4c09577..4d3b869 100644
--- a/Lib/site.py
+++ b/Lib/site.py
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@
         for n, line in enumerate(f):
             if line.startswith("#"):
                 continue
+            if line.strip() == "":
+                continue
             try:
                 if line.startswith(("import ", "import\t")):
                     exec(line)