Read file into list and strip newlines

Question

I\'m having issues in reading a file into a list, When I do it only creates one item from the entire file rather than reading each element into its own field. I\'m using

Answer 1

If you're okay with reading the entire file's contents into memory, you can also use str.splitlines()

with open('your_file.txt') as f:
    lines = f.read().splitlines()

splitlines() is similar to split('\n') but if your file ends with a newline, split('\n') will return an empty string at the very end, whereas splitlines() handles this case the way you want.