How to Read a file into a 2D Array in Python?

Question

So I have a file ( user.txt ) containing this

James, 10, Orange 
Andrew, 16, Yellow 
Graham, 23, Pink

I want to make it so I can read the file into a nested list so I will have

print(user[0][1])
#10

I attempted:

with open("user.txt") as file:
    user = [line.split(", ") for line in file.readlines()]

print(user[0][1])

however I get 'IndexError: list index out of range'

Hope someone can help

Possible duplicate of [How do I read a file line-by-line into a list?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3277503/how-do-i-read-a-file-line-by-line-into-a-list) — Hamms, Mar 09 '17 at 22:43
Use the [**`csv`**](https://docs.python.org/2/library/csv.html) module — Peter Wood, Mar 09 '17 at 23:06

Denziloe · Answer 1 · 2017-03-09T22:59:55.403

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with open("file location") as file:
    user = [line.rstrip("\n").split(", ") for line in file]

edited Mar 09 '17 at 22:59

answered Mar 09 '17 at 22:44

Denziloe

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