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

This is a one line, copy-pasteable solution that also closes the file object:

_ = open('data.txt', 'r'); data = _.read(); _.close()