David> fn = file('foo.txt')
David> txt = fn.readlines()
David> str = ?something?(txt) # or txt.?something?()...
Assuming what you really want is to get the contents of the file in one
gulp, this should work:
fn = file('foo.txt')
str = fn.read()
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