Python - Read CSV as List of Strings

Question

I have a CSV file with only one column. Each row has some words inside.

Hello World1
Hello World2
Hello World3

Now I want to read this file as a list of strings, each row is an item inside the list. Like this:

['Hello World1', 'Hello World2', 'Hello World3']

I have tried below code:

with open("myFile.csv", newline="") as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f)
    data = list(reader)

But it gave me another square brackets inside for each element. How can I remove it?

[['Hello World1'], ['Hello World2'], ['Hello World3']]

Does this answer your question? [How to read a file line-by-line into a list?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3277503/how-to-read-a-file-line-by-line-into-a-list) — Wups, Oct 23 '20 at 08:06

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '20 at 08:07

4

Solution:
This should solve your use case:

with open('myFile.csv') as file:
    data = file.read().splitlines()

INPUT DATA:

Hello World1
Hello World2
Hello World3

OUTPUT:

['Hello World1', 'Hello World2', 'Hello World3']

answered Oct 23 '20 at 08:07

Piyush Sambhi

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 23 '20 at 08:11

0

If it is a simple text file, you can simply do

with open("myFile.csv") as f:
    data=[line for line in f]

edited Oct 23 '20 at 08:11

Dharman

answered Oct 23 '20 at 08:06

alexblae

2 Answers2