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how to read a file into array in python

def readFile(fileName):
        fileObj = open(fileName, "r") #opens the file in read mode
        words = fileObj.read().splitlines() #puts the file into an array
        fileObj.close()
        return words

python read text file into a list

text_file = open("filename.dat", "r")
lines = text_file.readlines()
print lines
print len(lines)
text_file.close()

python string to array

>>> text = 'a b c'
>>> text = text.split(' ')
>>> text
[ 'a', 'b', 'c' ]