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

I use this

def cleaned( aFile ):
    for line in aFile:
        yield line.strip()

Then I can do things like this.

lines = list( cleaned( open("file","r") ) )

Or, I can extend cleaned with extra functions to, for example, drop blank lines or skip comment lines or whatever.