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

Just use generator expressions:

blahblah = (l.rstrip() for l in open(filename))
for x in blahblah:
    print x

Also I want to advise you against reading whole file in memory -- looping over generators is much more efficient on big datasets.