["python","list","file"]
How to save a list to a file and read it as a list type?

Say I have the list score = [1,2,3,4,5] and it gets changed while my program is running. How could I save it to a file so that next time the program is run I can access the changed list as a list type? I have tried: score=[1,2,3,4,5] with open("file.txt", 'w') as f: for s in score: f.write(str(s) + '\n') with open("file.txt", 'r') as f: score = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in f] print(score) But this results in the elements in the list being strings not integers.
I decided I didn't want to use a pickle because I wanted to be able to open the text file and change its contents easily during testing. Therefore, I did this: score = [1,2,3,4,5] with open("file.txt", "w") as f: for s in score: f.write(str(s) +"\n") score = [] with open("file.txt", "r") as f: for line in f: score.append(int(line.strip())) So the items in the file are read as integers, despite being stored to the file as strings.