Do you really want to read the entire text into one string variable? Do you really mean with "strip newlines" to replace them with an empty string? This would mean, that the last word of a line …

How do I read every line of a file in Python and store each line as an element in a list? I want to read the file line by line and append each line to the end of the list.

Jul 19, 2012 · In this case, it feels especially bad because iterators relate in a quasi-functional, value-based way to the contents of a file, but managing file handles is a completely separate …

In Ruby you can read from a file using s = File.read (filename). The shortest and clearest I know in Python is with open (filename) as f: s = f.read () Is there any other way to do it that makes it

Jun 25, 2011 · I want to read a large file (>5GB), line by line, without loading its entire contents into memory. I cannot use readlines() since it creates a very large list in memory.

Feb 4, 2013 · I am trying to read the lines of a text file into a list or array in python. I just need to be able to individually access any item in the list or array after it is created. The text file is form...

Nov 12, 2018 · 29 text_file.readlines() returns a list of strings containing the lines in the file. If you want only a string, not a list of the lines, use text_file.read() instead. You also have another …

Oct 13, 2010 · 133 Two ways to read file into list in python (note these are not either or) - use of with - supported from python 2.5 and above use of list comprehensions 1. use of with This is …

30 It is also possible to read an encoded text file using the python 3 read method:

First open the file in read mode.Then use readlines () method to read line by line.All the lines stored in a list.Now you can use list slices to get first and last lines of the file.