Converting every word or special character in a text file into a list?-CodePudding

What I have:

#text file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
<script id="polyfill-script-bundle">
</script>

What I want:

file = ['<!DOCTYPE html>\n', '<html lang="en" dir="ltr">\n', '<head>\n', '<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">\n', '<script id="polyfill-script-bundle">\n', '</script>']

I plan to do this for an entire HTML text file, what is the best way to go about this?

CodePudding user response：

The code below retains the \n at the end of each line.

with open("filenamegoeshere.txt") as infile:
    as_list = infile.readlines()
print(as_list)

output

['<!DOCTYPE html>\n', '<html lang="en" dir="ltr">\n', '<head>\n', '<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">\n', '<script id="polyfill-script-bundle">\n', '</script>']

CodePudding user response：

string.split('\n') sounds like the best thing here. Although be aware that this will remove the '\n's, if that isn't a problem this should be your best bet.