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

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

input

2 3
1 2 3
4 5 6

output [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]