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.

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 and the …

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 task. …

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.

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 problem in …

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...

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 the pythonic …

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

Sep 17, 2017 · I have a two requirements . First Requirement -I want to read the last line of a file and assign the last value to a variable in python. Second Requirement - Here is my sample file.