I have this function that reads files and creates a list of all the data, but it will only add lines that are not commented. My question is how do i create a this faction into a method for a class?

this is the code i have

def reads_file(): file= input( ) f= open(file) word_list=[] the_list=[] for words in f: #creates the list of words of the file word_list.append(words.split()) for words in word_list: #creates the list of words of the file if words[0] != '#': the_list.append(words) return the_list