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>
> Hey, I'm wondering how to read individual strings in a text file.  I can
> read a text file by lines with .readlines() ,
> but I need to read specifically by strings, not including spaces.  Thanks
> in advance
>

How about:

for a_string in open("/path/to/file").read().split():
    print(a_string)