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Reading a whole text file at once:
readlines()
readlines()
returns a list
each element is a string with the content of one line from the file
The text file file.txt:
This is the first line. This is the second line.
is read by:
aFile = file("file.txt", "r")·
aList = aFile.readlines() # read the file
aFile.close()
print aList
print aList[1]printing:
['This is the first line. \n', 'This is the second line.\n'] This is the second line.