How does this code work?

[pd_minh12]

readfile1 = open("file.txt", "r")
f = readfile1.readlines()

newList = []

for line in f:
  newList.append(line.strip())

print(newList)

Yoriz write Apr-14-2022, 05:23 PM:
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[jefsummers]

First, you need to have a reference or your learning will be very slow. Here is the documentation for Python: https://docs.python.org/3/

Now, answering your specific question -
First line opens the file "file.txt" for reading and associates that file with the variable "readfile1"
Next line reads the contents of that file as a list of lines, assigns that list the name f
Next you create a new empty list called newList (btw - that variable name is called CamelCase and is frowned upon in Python. Better to use new_list)
Then you start a loop, through each item in the list f you strip the whitespace off the item and append it to the new list
Finally you print the new list.

[Axel_Erfurt]

It could also be made shorter.

# read file as string
readfile1 = open("file.txt", "r").read()
# split lines into list
newList = readfile1.splitlines()
#print list
print(newList)

or

newList = open("file.txt", "r").read().splitlines()
print(newList)

[Pedroski55]

Oder auch so?

All in one fell swoop!

@pd_minh12: if you use with open(myfile) as any_name_here: you don't need to worry about closing the file afterwards, it will be closed automatically!

myfile = '/home/pedro/summer2022/breakingnewsEnglish/heat_or_eat_UK.txt'

with open(myfile) as mf:
    newList = mf.read().splitlines()    
    for l in newList:
        print(l)