Martin Panter added the comment: As far as I know “argparse” takes arguments straight from the command line without interpreting any escape sequences. Perhaps you should look up how to pass a literal tab on the command line, but this is nothing specific to do with Python. E.g. in the Bash shell the following might work:
$ echo $'a\tb' # Bash specific syntax a b $ echo "$(printf 'a\tb')" # Any Posix shell a b $ echo "a b" # Ctrl+V, Tab for literal tab to bypass completion a b ---------- nosy: +martin.panter resolution: -> third party status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25231> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
