Tab Character?

[tbonejo@gmail.com]

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


Thanks.

Tom

[John Zenger]

Re: Tab Character?

Tab is \t . As in:

print "coke\tpeps i"
tsvline.split(" \t")

tbonejo@gmail.c om wrote:[color=blue]
> How do I make a tab character in code to split a line read with tabs in
> it?
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> Thanks.
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[Ben Finney]

Re: Tab Character?

"tbonejo@gmail. com" <tbonejo@gmail. com> writes:[color=blue]
> How do I make a tab character in code to split a line read with tabs in
> it?[/color]

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::
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> foo = "\t"
>>> print foo[/color][/color][/color]
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> print ord(foo)[/color][/color][/color]
9

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

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

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[Larry Bates]

Re: Tab Character?

tbonejo@gmail.c om wrote:[color=blue]
> How do I make a tab character in code to split a line read with tabs in
> it?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tom
>[/color]
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