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

A good answer would be :

def read_text(path):
    with open(path, 'r') as file:
        line_array = file.read().splitlines()
        cell_array = []
        for line in line_array:
            cell_array.append(line.split())
        print(cell_array)

Which is optimized for readability.

But python syntax let's us use less code:

def read_text(path):
    with open(path, 'r') as file:
        line_array = file.read().splitlines()
        cell_array = [line.split() for line in line_array]
        print(cell_array)

And also python let's us do it only in one line!!

def read_text(path):
    print([[item for item in line.split()] for line in open(path)])