turn text lines into a list

[Xah Lee]

i have a large number of lines i want to turn into a list.
In perl, i can do

@corenames=qw(
rb_basic_islamic
sq1_pentagonTile
sq_arc501Tile
sq_arc503Tile
);

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper(\@corenames);

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is there some shortcut to turn lines into list in Python?

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