How to read a text file into a string variable and strip newlines?

Question

I use the following code segment to read a file in python:

with open (\"data.txt\", \"r\") as myfile:
    data=myfile.readlines()

Input fil

Answer 1

python3: Google "list comphrension" if the square bracket syntax is new to you.

 with open('data.txt') as f:
     lines = [ line.strip( ) for line in list(f) ]