Remove newline characters from a fileΒΆ

Remove newline characters from a file.
def remove_newlines(fname):

    text = open(fname).readlines()

    return [line.rstrip('\n') for line in text]

# test
print(remove_newlines("test.txt"))

Output:

['Welcome to w3resource.com.', 'Append this text.Append this text.Append this text.',
 'Append this text.', 'Append this text.', 'Append this text.', 'Append this text.']