【Python 学习笔记】read text file

how would python read a text file?

1. Reading the entire file at once: often used when the file is small and you need the entire content in one go for processing. However, it may not be efficient for very large files because it loads the entire content into memory.

Return type: Returns a single string containing all the content of the file.

# Open the file in read mode
with open('filename.txt', 'r') as file:
    content = file.read()

# Print the content
print(content)

2. Reading the file into a list: used when you want to process the file line by line and prefer working with lists. It’s useful when you want the file content as separate lines, but it still loads the entire file into memory.

Return type: Returns a list where each element is a line from the file (with \n at the end unless stripped).

# Open the file in read mode
with open('filename.txt', 'r') as file:
    lines = file.readlines()

# Print the list of lines
print(lines)

3. Reading the file line by line:

memory efficient and works well for most tasks, especially when working with large files.

# Open the file in read mode
with open('filename.txt', 'r') as file:
    for line in file:
        print(line.strip())  # strip() removes any extra newline characters

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