Remove empty lines from dict and user-provided input file

TextRecognitionDataGenerator/run.py

@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ def load_dict(lang):
 
     lang_dict = []
     with open(os.path.join('dicts', lang + '.txt'), 'r', encoding="utf8", errors='ignore') as d:
-        lang_dict = d.readlines()
+        lang_dict = [l for l in d.read().splitlines() if len(l) > 0]
     return lang_dict
 
 def load_fonts(lang):

TextRecognitionDataGenerator/string_generator.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ def create_strings_from_file(filename, count):
     strings = []
 
     with open(filename, 'r', encoding="utf8") as f:
-        lines = [l.strip()[0:200] for l in f.readlines()]
+        lines = [l[0:200] for l in f.read().splitlines() if len(l) > 0]
         if len(lines) == 0:
             raise Exception("No lines could be read in file")
         while len(strings) < count:
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ def create_strings_from_dict(length, allow_variable, count, lang_dict):
     for _ in range(0, count):
         current_string = ""
         for _ in range(0, rnd.randint(1, length) if allow_variable else length):
-            current_string += lang_dict[rnd.randrange(dict_len)][:-1]
+            current_string += lang_dict[rnd.randrange(dict_len)]
             current_string += ' '
         strings.append(current_string[:-1])
     return strings

tests.py

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def test_create_string_from_file(self):
         )
 
     def test_create_strings_from_dict(self):
-        strings = create_strings_from_dict(3, False, 2, ['TEST\n', 'TEST\n', 'TEST\n', 'TEST\n'])
+        strings = create_strings_from_dict(3, False, 2, ['TEST', 'TEST', 'TEST', 'TEST'])
 
         self.assertTrue(
             len(strings) == 2 and