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

row=list(map(int,input().split())) #input no. of row and column
b=[]
for i in range(0,row[0]):
    print('value of i: ',i)
    a=list(map(int,input().split()))
    print(a)
    b.append(a)
print(b)
print(row)

Output:

2 3

value of i:0
1 2 4 5
[1, 2, 4, 5]
value of i:  1
2 4 5 6
[2, 4, 5, 6]
[[1, 2, 4, 5], [2, 4, 5, 6]]
[2, 3]

Note: this code in case of control.it only control no. Of rows but we can enter any number of column we want i.e row[0]=2 so be careful. This is not the code where you can control no of columns.