How to Read a File Line-By-Line Into a Python List?
To read a file line-by-line into a Python list, you can use the following code:
with open(filename) as f:
lines = f.readlines()
This code opens the specified file (filename) in read mode and uses a context manager (with) to ensure that the file is properly closed after it is read. Then, it calls the readlines() method on the file object to read all the lines of the file into a list (lines), where each line is a separate element in the list.
You can then process the lines in the list as needed. For example, you could print each line by looping over the list:
for line in lines:
print(line)
Note that the readlines() method includes the newline character (\n) at the end of each line, so you may need to strip this character using the strip() method if you want to clean up the text. For example, to create a list of the file's lines without newline characters, you can use the following code:
with open(filename) as f:
lines = [line.strip() for line in f.readlines()]
This code creates a list comprehension that strips the newline character (strip()) from each line in the list returned by readlines().