title: Reading 2d array from a file into python list
body: <p>I am trying to read a 2d array of comma separated values from a file into a list. I have the following problem, how do I get rid of trailing newlines? This is what I mean. This is one row I have read.</p>
  
  <pre><code>['0', '0', '0', '1', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '1', '1', '1\n']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Presently, I have the following in code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ins = open( "parseTable.txt", "r" )
  parseTable = []
  for line in ins:
      row = line.split(',')
      parseTable.append(row)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks everybody for the tips. I did the following to make do.
  thanks for all the tips. I did the following to make do.</p>
  
  <pre><code>ins = open( "parseTable.txt", "r" )
  parseTable = []
  for line in ins:
      row = line.split(',')
      parseTable.append(map(int,line.split(',')))
  </code></pre>