How to read the entire file into a list in python?

Question

I want to read an entire file into a python list any one knows how to?

Answer 1

Simpler:

with open(path) as f:
    myList = list(f)

If you don't want linebreaks, you can do list(f.read().splitlines())

Answer 2

print "\nReading the entire file into a list."
text_file = open("read_it.txt", "r")
lines = text_file.readlines()
print lines
print len(lines)
for line in lines:
    print line
text_file.close()