turn text file into list 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: list to text file python

with open('your_file.txt', 'w') as f:
    for item in my_list:
        f.write("%s\n" % item)