read file as string python code example

Example 1: python read file to variable

with open('data.txt', 'r') as file:
    data = file.read().replace('\n', '')

Example 2: python read entire file as string

# Open a file: file
file = open('my_text_file',mode='r')
 
# read all lines at once
all_of_it = file.read()
 
# close the file
file.close()