to list the contents of a text file in python code example

Example 1: python read text file to 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: read file into list python

with open('file1.txt','r+') as f:
	lines=f.read().splitlines()
	print(lines)