In this example, you will learn to read a file line by line into a list.
To understand this example, you should have the knowledge of the following Python programming topics:
1. Example 1: Using readlines()
Let the content of the file data_file.txt
be
honda 1948 mercedes 1926 ford 1903
Source Code
with open("data_file.txt") as f: content_list = f.readlines() # print the list print(content_list) # remove new line characters content_list = [x.strip() for x in content_list] print(content_list)
Output
['honda 1948\n', 'mercedes 1926\n', 'ford 1903'] ['honda 1948', 'mercedes 1926', 'ford 1903']
readlines()
returns a list of lines from the file.
- First, open the file and read the file using
readlines()
. - If you want to remove the new lines (‘
\n
‘), you can usestrip()
.
2. Example 2: Using for loop and list comprehension
with open('data_file.txt') as f: content_list = [line for line in f] print(content_list) # removing the characters with open('data_file.txt') as f: content_list = [line.rstrip() for line in f] print(content_list)
Output
['honda 1948\n', 'mercedes 1926\n', 'ford 1903'] ['honda 1948', 'mercedes 1926', 'ford 1903']
Another way to achieve the same thing is using a for loop. In each iteration, you can read each line of f
object and store it in content_list
as shown in the example above.
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