Is there a one-liner to read all the lines of a file in Python, rather than the standard:
f = open('x.txt')
cts = f.read()
f.close()
Seems like this is done so often that there's got to be a one-liner. Any ideas?
3 Answers
Starting in Python 3.5, you can use the pathlib module for a more modern interface. Being Python 3, it makes a distinction between reading text and reading bytes:
from pathlib import Path
text_string = Path('x.txt').read_text() # type: str
byte_string = Path('x.txt').read_bytes() # type: bytes
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