remove line break from each element in python

Question

I open a text file, now each element in the text file is separated by a line break. when I use readlines() It keeps this line break in the list, this is after each element so as it looks like this [zebra\n, ant\n,] i was wondering whether there is a easy function or piece of coding that I could use to just strip all the elements of this line break!

this is the code i have written so far

filelist=file.readlines()
file.close()
return filelist

Answer 1

try:

filelist = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in file]