Reading a file into a multidimensional array with Python

Question

If I have a text file like this:

Hello World
How are you?
Bye World

How would I read it into a multidimensional array like this:

Answer 1

Also don't forget to use strip to remove the \n:

myArray = []
textFile = open("textFile.txt")
lines = textFile.readlines()
for line in lines:
    myArray.append(line.split(" "))