From 30e5d843d43e8fa26e28710db120ac8566691024 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Black <steveb@stevenblack.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 23:34:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #77: fix bug with emitting comments.

---
 updateHostsFile.py | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/updateHostsFile.py b/updateHostsFile.py
index a6133cf61..20432e09f 100644
--- a/updateHostsFile.py
+++ b/updateHostsFile.py
@@ -320,9 +320,7 @@ def removeDupsAndExcl(mergeFile):
         # replace tabs with space
         line = line.replace('\t+', ' ')
         # Trim trailing whitespace
-        line = line.rstrip()
-        if not line:
-            continue
+        line = line.rstrip() + "\n"
         # Testing the first character doesn't require startswith
         if line[0] == '#' or re.match(r'^\s*$', line[0]):
             # Cross-python write