How can I read in my file line by line with each line as a list of floats?

Question

I have a file where each line has a pair of coordinates like so:

[-74.0104294, 40.6996416]

The code that I\'m using to read them in is:

Answer 1

even better way than @ZeroPiraeus solution use ast.literal_eval which can evaluate any literal of python (here a list literal compound of float literal)

import ast
m_verts = []
with open('Manhattan_Coords.txt') as f:
    for line in f:
        pair = ast.literal_eval(line)
        m_verts.append(pair)

but for construction of the list even better is list comprehension

import ast
with open('Manhattan_Coords.txt') as f:
    m_verts = [ast.literal_eval(line) for line in f]