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

Have you tried this?

x = "yourfilename.txt"
y = open(x, 'r').read()

print(y)