Converting a string into a list in Python

Question

I have a text document that contains a list of numbers and I want to convert it to a list. Right now I can only get the entire list in the 0th entry of the list, but I want

Answer 1

>>> open("myfile.txt").readlines()
>>> lines = open("myfile.txt").readlines()
>>> lines
['1000\n', '2000\n', '3000\n', '4000\n']
>>> clean_lines = [x.strip() for x in lines]
>>> clean_lines
['1000', '2000', '3000', '4000']

Or, if you have a string already, use str.split:

>>> myfile
'1000\n2000\n3000\n4000\n'
>>> myfile.splitlines()
['1000', '2000', '3000', '4000', '']

You can remove the empty element with a list comprehension (or just a regular for loop)

>>> [x for x in myfile.splitlines() if x != ""]
['1000', '2000', '3000', '4000']