From e07b624106edaa5e3cd8629e35f635c8632648f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colm Talbot <colm.talbot@ligo.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:33:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] make prior reading not fail with empty lines
---
bilby/core/prior.py | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bilby/core/prior.py b/bilby/core/prior.py
index f783d52eb..108528be0 100644
--- a/bilby/core/prior.py
+++ b/bilby/core/prior.py
@@ -66,12 +66,17 @@ class PriorDict(OrderedDict):
----------
filename: str
Name of the file to be read in
+
+ Notes
+ -----
+ Lines beginning with '#' or empty lines will be ignored.
"""
- prior = {}
+ comments = ['#', '\n']
+ prior = dict()
with open(filename, 'r') as f:
for line in f:
- if line[0] == '#':
+ if line[0] in comments:
continue
elements = line.split('=')
key = elements[0].replace(' ', '')
--
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