Best method for reading newline delimited files and discarding the newlines?

Question

I am trying to determine the best way to handle getting rid of newlines when reading in newline delimited files in Python.

What I\'ve come up with is the following c

Answer 1

What do you think about this approach?

with open(filename) as data:
    datalines = (line.rstrip('\r\n') for line in data)
    for line in datalines:
        ...do something awesome...

Generator expression avoids loading whole file into memory and with ensures closing the file