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Read contents of the file using readlines() method in Python

Here, we are going to learn how to read contents of the file using readlines() method in Python?
Submitted by Shivang Yadav, on February 11, 2021

Program Statement: Python program to read contents of the file using readlines() method.

Program Description: We will read the characters of a files line by line using the readlines() method in python.

We will use the concepts of file handling in python to read the contents of a file line by line using readlines() method.

• The readlines() method is used to return a list that contains lines of the file. Each line is an item of the list.

Steps to read contents of file:

• Step 1: Open the file in read mode using 'r'.
• Step 2: Read the data from the file line by line.
  • Step 2.1: Extract each line, we will use readlines() which will be stored in a list.
  • Step 2.2: print the list.

Program to illustrate the solution of the problem

F=open("names.dat","r")

data=F.readlines()
print(data)

F.close()

Output:

['File Handling in Python Programming Language\n', 'Reading files using readLine ']

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