Representing a text file into a list using python

Question

I want to open a text file in a list using Python.

The structure of my text.txt file is as follows:

"Sentence 1.", "Sentence 2.",..., "Sentence n."

Each sentence is embedded with punctuation marks and separated by comma mark. I want to print it in a list maintaining same structure.

I want the output to be displayed as:

["Sentence 1.", "Sentence 2.",..., "Sentence n."]

But as of now, I am getting the output in the below mentioned format

['"Sentence 1.", "Sentence 2.",..., "Sentence n."']

How to exclude the extra single inverted punctuation mark? Any help is appreciated.

This is my code:

def read_data():
    global new_list
    with open("text.txt", 'r', encoding = 'utf-8') as f:
       raw_data = f.read()
       new_list = [raw_data.strip()]
       print(new_list)
read_data()

Answer 1

Your text.txt file is basically a csv file. Using the csv module we can do the following:

import csv

with open("text.txt", 'r', encoding = 'utf-8') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f, skipinitialspace=True)
    new_list = next(reader)