How to input matrix (2D list) in Python?

Question

I tried to create this code to input an m by n matrix. I intended to input [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] but the code yields [[4,5,6],[4,5,6]. Same things happ

Answer 1

If you want to take n lines of input where each line contains m space separated integers like:

1 2 3
4 5 6 
7 8 9 

Then you can use:

a=[] // declaration 
for i in range(0,n):   //where n is the no. of lines you want 
 a.append([int(j) for j in input().split()])  // for taking m space separated integers as input

Then print whatever you want like for the above input:

print(a[1][1]) 

O/P would be 5 for 0 based indexing