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This is a bad approach. For one thing, calling .read().splitlines() isn't in any way "simpler" than just calling .readlines(). For another, it's memory-inefficient; you're needlessly storing two versions of the file content (the single string returned by .read(), and the list of strings returned by splitlines()) in memory at once.

Mark Amery
– Mark Amery

2019-12-29 14:12:11 +00:00
Commented Dec 29, 2019 at 14:12
@MarkAmery True. Thanks for highlighting this. I have updated my answer.

Jean-Francois T.
– Jean-Francois T.

2019-12-31 10:00:45 +00:00
Commented Dec 31, 2019 at 10:00

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