Reading content of file into variable and splitting into an array

[neeru29]

hello,

i'm trying to read the content of file into the variable at once. It has been successful. But how can i split each new line into array.

Let us assume the file contains the following line
192.114.82.90 - - [01/Nov/1998:00:32:54 +0200] www.actcom.co.il "GET /~choo/lupg/images/good_bar.gif HTTP/1.0" 404 -
192.114.82.90 - - [01/Nov/1998:00:33:03 +0200] www.actcom.co.il "GET /~choo/lupg/images/good_bar.gif HTTP/1.0" 300 1234
192.114.82.90 - - [01/Nov/1998:00:33:03 +0200] www.actcom.co.il "GET /~choo/lupg/images/good_bar.gif HTTP/1.0" 300 -

def file_get_contents(filename):
	with open(filename) as a_file:
		return a_file.read()

content = file_get_contents(filename)

Thanks in advance....

[bvdet]

File method readlines() will read the entire file and return a list of the lines which is the equivalent of:

f = open("file_name")
lineList = []
for line in f:
    lineList.append(line)