Get File Content with Python

get-file.py

# Example of getting file content

def getFileContent(pathAndFileName):
    with open(pathAndFileName, 'r') as theFile:
        # Return a list of lines (strings)
        # data = theFile.read().split('\n')
        
        # Return as string without line breaks
        # data = theFile.read().replace('\n', '')
        
        # Return as string
        data = theFile.read()
        return data

print getFileContent('./test.txt')

two-line way of doing the same thing:

from pathlib import Path
fileContent = Path('./test.txt').read_text()