Reading from a plain text file

Question

Say I have the following in a text file:

car
apple
bike
book

How can I read it and put them into a dictionary

Answer 1

You can use the file with with like this. This is called a context manager and automatically closes the file at the end of the indented block

with open('data.txt') as f:
    words = f.readlines()

If you want to do it without a context manager, you should close the file yourself

f = open('data.txt')
words = f.readlines()
f.close()

Otherwise the file remains open at least as long as f is still in scope