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

You might need to strip newlines.

# list of strings
[number for number in open("file.txt")]

# list of integers
[int(number) for number in open("file.txt")]