How to read a text file into a string variable and strip newlines?

Question

I use the following code segment to read a file in python:

with open (\"data.txt\", \"r\") as myfile:
    data=myfile.readlines()

Input fil

Answer 1

f = open('data.txt','r')
string = ""
while 1:
    line = f.readline()
    if not line:break
    string += line

f.close()


print string