Python regex parsing and putting into a multidimensional list

Python regex parsing and putting into a multidimensional list

I know that regex is the way to go here but I am woeful at writing regex
expressions. I have a file where each line looks like this:
"defenders\t2\n" and I want to remove the \t and the \n and put the word
"defenders" into the [0] of my multidimensional list and put the number
"2" in the [1] of my list. Is there an easy regex way to do this in
python?
import re
d = []
with open("somefile.txt") as f:
for line in f:
word = re.search()
rank = re.search()
d.append([word][rank])
This is what I am trying but I do not know how to make it work. Thanks for
the help.