Python: AttributeError: '_io.TextIOWrapper' object has no attribute 'split'

Question

I have a textfile, let\'s call it goodlines.txt and I want to load it and make a list that contains each line in the text file.

I tried using the

Answer 1

You're not reading the file content:

my_file_contents = f.read()

See the docs for further infos

You could, without calling read() or readlines() loop over your file object:

f = open('goodlines.txt')
for line in f:
    print(line)

If you want a list out of it (without \n as you asked)

my_list = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in f]