How to to read a matrix from a given file?

Question

I have a text file which contains matrix of N * M dimensions.

For example the input.txt file contains the following:

Answer 1

Consider

with open('input.txt', 'r') as f:
    l = [[int(num) for num in line.split(',')] for line in f]
print(l)

produces

[[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1], [0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2], [1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 0, 2, 1]]

Note that you have to split on commas.

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If you do have blank lines then change

l = [[int(num) for num in line.split(',')] for line in f ]

to

l = [[int(num) for num in line.split(',')] for line in f if line.strip() != "" ]