Python - Most elegant way to read lines of file into list

Ref:
[1] - Python: read file line by line into array

For most cases, to read lines of file to a list, we just use

with open(fileName) as f:
  lineList = f.readlines()

In this case, every element in the list contain a \n in the end the string, which would be extremely annoying in some cases.

And there will be same problem if you use:

lineList = list()
with open(fileName) as f:
  for line in f:
    lineList.append(line)

To overcome this, you could use:

lineList = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in open(fileName)]