read file into list of lists

[Paddy]

On Jul 11, 2:15 pm, antar2 <desoth... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can not find out how to read a file into a list of lists. I know how
> to split a text into a list
>
> sentences = line.split(\n)
>
> following text for example should be considered as a list of lists (3
> columns and 3 rows), so that when I make the print statement list[0]
> [0], that the word pear appears
>
> pear noun singular
> books nouns plural
> table noun singular
>
> Can someone help me?
>
> Thanks

lofl = [line.strip().split() for line in the_opened_file]

- Paddy.