Is there a difference between : “file.readlines()”, “list(file)” and “file.read().splitlines(True)”?

Question

What is the difference between :

with open(\"file.txt\", \"r\") as f:
    data = list(f)

Or :

with open(\"file.txt\", \"r\") as         


        

Answer 1

Explicit is better than implicit, so I prefer:

with open("file.txt", "r") as f:
    data = f.readlines()

But, when it is possible, the most pythonic is to use the file iterator directly, without loading all the content to memory, e.g.:

with open("file.txt", "r") as f:
    for line in f:
       my_function(line)