How do you read a file into a list in Python? [duplicate]

by 
with open('C:/path/numbers.txt') as f:
    lines = f.read().splitlines()

this will give you a list of values (strings) you had in your file, with newlines stripped.

also, watch your backslashes in windows path names, as those are also escape chars in strings. You can use forward slashes or double backslashes instead.

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