> > Most likely the file is not tab delimited. If you used an editor to > produce dummy.txt, check whether it uses soft tabs and disable it > temporarily. > > HTH, > George
> Most likely the file is not tab delimited. If you used an editor to > produce dummy.txt, check whether it uses soft tabs and disable it > temporarily. > > HTH, > George grrr thanks George, thanks Daniel, that's it. Works fine with real tabs. Now this brings me to a follow-up: I have not prepared the input ascii file, I just got if for post-processing (23 MB). Now it seems that I would have to replace all series of spaces in this file with real tabs at first.. How would you do that? Are there text editors capable of doing this? Best regards, Bernhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
