Tab Character?

[tbonejo]

How do I make a tab character in code to split a line read with tabs in
it?


Thanks.

Tom

 

[John Zenger]

Tab is \t . As in:

print "coke\tpepsi"
tsvline.split("\t")

 

[Ben Finney]

How do I make a tab character in code to split a line read with tabs in
it?

For such non-printing characters it's best not to have them literally
in your code, but to use an escape sequence to generate them at
run-time::
9

This is explained in the "String literals" section of the Python
reference.

<URL:http://docs.python.org/dev/ref/strings.html>

 

[Larry Bates]

How do I make a tab character in code to split a line read with tabs in
it?


Thanks.

Tom

You should also take a look at csv module. If you are reading lines
that contain tab delimeted data the csv module can make splitting very
easy.

-Larry Bates