Solution:
You are employing str systems on an open file object.
You can read the file as a list of lines by easily calling list() on the file object:
with open('goodlines.txt') as f:
mylist = list(f)
This does add the newline characters. You can slice those in a list contact:
with open('goodlines.txt') as f:
mylist = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in f]
Attempt this:
>>> f = open('goodlines.txt')
>>> mylist = f.readlines()
open() function returns a file object. And for file object, there is no system like splitlines() or split(). You could use dir(f) to view all the methods of file object.
You're not reading the file content:
my_file_contents = f.read()
Without calling read() or readlines() loop over your file object:
f = open('goodlines.txt')
for line in f:
print(line)
In case you want a list out of it (without \n as you asked)
my_list = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in f]
