with open('names.txt', 'r') as f:
myNames = [line.strip() for line in f]
f = open(filename, "r")
listItems = f.read().splitlines()
text_file = open("filename.dat", "r")
lines = text_file.readlines()
print lines
print len(lines)
text_file.close()
# read file in a string list
with open(fileName) as f:
lineList = f.readlines()
import csv
with open('filename.csv', 'r') as fd:
reader = csv.reader(fd)
for row in reader:
# do something