Simplify the condition.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/pygments/formatters/html.py b/pygments/formatters/html.py
index d9e68a99..ee53f132 100644
--- a/pygments/formatters/html.py
+++ b/pygments/formatters/html.py
@@ -878,14 +878,12 @@ class HtmlFormatter(Formatter):
             # for all but the last line
             for part in parts[:-1]:
                 if line:
-                    if lspan != cspan:
-                        # If part is empty (i.e. it was a newline), just close
-                        if part:
-                            line.extend(((lspan and '</span>'), cspan, part,
-                                        (cspan and '</span>'), lsep))
-                        else:
-                            line.extend(((lspan and '</span>'), lsep))
-                    else:  # both are the same
+                    # Also check for part being non-empty, so we avoid creating
+                    # empty <span> tags
+                    if lspan != cspan and part:
+                        line.extend(((lspan and '</span>'), cspan, part,
+                                     (cspan and '</span>'), lsep))
+                    else:  # both are the same, or the current part was empty
                         line.extend((part, (lspan and '</span>'), lsep))
                     yield 1, ''.join(line)
                     line = []