How do I read every line of a file in Python and store each line as an element in a list? I want to read the file line by line and append each line to the end of the list.

Jul 19, 2012 · The title says that this question is about reading line-by-line and not reading binary files (which is very different). If you want to edit the last example to use the print-function …

Nov. 2022 Edit: A related question that was asked 8 months after this question has many useful answers and comments. To get a deeper understanding of python logic, do also read this …

Jun 25, 2011 · I want to read a large file (>5GB), line by line, without loading its entire contents into memory. I cannot use readlines() since it creates a very large list in memory.

I'm using a for loop to read a file, but I only want to read specific lines, say line #26 and #30. Is there any built-in feature to achieve this?

Jul 28, 2015 · In the first one you are iterating over the file, line by line. In this scenario, the entire file data is not read into the memory at once; instead, only the current line is read into memory.

In Python, calling e.g. temp = open (filename,'r').readlines () results in a list in which each element is a line from the file. However, these strings have a newline character at the end, which I do...

ValueError: Extra data: line 2 column 1 - line 225116 column 1 (char 232 - 160128774) I looked at 18.2. json — JSON encoder and decoder in the Python documentation, but it's pretty …

How to read a file in reverse order using python? I want to read a file from last line to first line.

Aug 21, 2023 · Is it possible to read a line from a gzip-compressed text file using Python without extracting the file completely? I have a text.gz file which is around 200 MB. When I extract it, it …