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

This incorporates the strip directly into the for statement.

with open('drugs', 'r') as f:
  for line in map(lambda line: line.rstrip('\n'), f):
    print line

Or, if you know you don't need any space before or after text on a line, you can use this.

import string

with open('drugs', 'r') as f:
  for line in map(string.strip, f):
    print line