load words from file and make a list of that

Question

My idea is to load words from a directory (contains A Words.txt- Z Words.txt) and copy it into a list. The below code works, but adds "\\n" at the end of each word (example ["apple\\n", "abort\\n"] ); can anybody suggest a way to fix it?

from io import *
import string

def load_words(base_dir):
words = []
for i in string.uppercase:
    location = base_dir+"\\"+i+" Words.txt"
    with open(location, "rb+") as f:
        words += f.readlines()
return words

Answer 1

Explicitly strip newlines using str.rstrip :

def load_words(base_dir):
    words = []
    for i in string.uppercase:
        location = base_dir+"\\"+i+" Words.txt"
        with open(location, "rb+") as f:
            for line in f:                      # <---------
                words.append(line.rstrip())     # <---------
            # OR words.extend(line.rstrip() for line in f)
    return words

Answer 2

change

words += f.readlines()

to :

words += [x.strip() for x in f.readlines()]

strip() removes trailing and leading whitespace charachters.

Answer 3

Try this. Hope it helps.

from io import *
import string

def load_words(base_dir):
words = []
for i in string.uppercase:
    location = base_dir+"\\"+i+" Words.txt"
    with open(location, "rb+") as f:
        for i in f.readlines():
            words.append(i.strip())
return words