title: Read File Function
body: <p>Essentially, I wan this function to take a file name, read the contents of that file into the profile_list. I want the list of profile objects to be returned when the function is called, but I can't seem to get this to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated</p>
  
  <pre><code>def read_file(filename, profile_list):
  
   infile = open(filename, "r")
   profile_list = infile.readlines()
   for i in range(len(profile_list)):
       profile_list[i] = profile_list[i].rstrip('\n')
   infile.close()
   return profile_list
  
  profile_list = []
  read_file("profiles.txt", profiles_list)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am a beginner, and I do know I'm making a mistake somewhere, I just don't know where. The problem is that it's just not reading anything when called.</p>