"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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::
>>> foo = "\t"
>>> print foo
>>> print ord(foo)
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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