main(): Ignore any line that is empty (all whitespace) or is a comment

(first non-whitespace is a #).

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bin/sync_members b/bin/sync_members
index 66652672b..47ef8ea2f 100755
--- a/bin/sync_members
+++ b/bin/sync_members
@@ -161,6 +161,14 @@ def main():
         filemembers = fp.readlines()
         fp.close()
 
+    # strip out lines we don't care about, they are comments (# in first
+    # non-whitespace) or are blank
+    for i in range(len(filemembers)-1, -1, -1):
+        addr = string.strip(filemembers[i])
+        if addr == '' or addr[:1] == '#':
+            del filemembers[i]
+            print 'Ignore  :  %30s' % addr
+
     # first filter out any invalid addresses
     filemembers = Mailman.Utils.ParseAddrs(filemembers)
     invalid = 0