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

you can compress this into one into two lines of code!!!

content = open('filepath','r').read().replace('\n',' ')
print(content)

if your file reads:

hello how are you?
who are you?
blank blank

python output

hello how are you? who are you? blank blank