string split with delimiter \t

Question

This is my code:

while 1:
    line = file.readline()
    if not line: break
    linenum += 1
    line = line.splitlines()[0]
    token = line.split('\t')

and this is a screenshot showing the local variables displayed in the debugger window:

As you can see in debugger's image, line isn't split. Why this is happening? I tried a regular expression but split still doesn't work.

Answer 1

Problem is not in your code, but in your input file, It contains '\\\\t' (that is, backslash and t letter) instead of '\\t' .

Weird "capital W with strikethrough" is actually a backslash displayed in a wrong way .