python file to list of strings code example
Example 1: python read each line into a list
with open(filename) as f:
content = f.readlines()
# you may also want to remove whitespace characters like `\n` at the end of each line
content = [x.strip() for x in content]
Example 2: python read file into a list
f = open(filename, "r")
listItems = f.read().splitlines()