Converting a string into a list in Python

Question

I have a text document that contains a list of numbers and I want to convert it to a list. Right now I can only get the entire list in the 0th entry of the list, but I want

Answer 1

    $ cat > t.txt
    1
    2
    3
    4
    ^D
    $ python
    Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jul  7 2009, 23:51:51) 
    [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> l = [l.strip() for l in open('t.txt')]
    >>> l
    ['1', '2', '3', '4']
    >>>