How do I read every line of a file in Python and store each line as an element in a list?
I want to read the file line by line and append each line to the end of the list.
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This code will read the entire file into memory and remove all whitespace characters (newlines and spaces) from the end of each line:
If you’re working with a large file, then you should instead read and process it line-by-line:
In Python 3.8 and up you can use a while loop with the walrus operator like so:
Depending on what you plan to do with your file and how it was encoded, you may also want to manually set the access mode and character encoding: