Text file opener

__author__ = 'Colin McNeil'
def getstrings(filename):
    #Open the file with the filename passed in
    file = open(filename,'r')
    #Split into list of substrings with a split every line
    stringo=file.read().split('\n')
    #Trim empty space
    del(stringo[len(stringo)-1])
    return(stringo)