On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:51:44 -0800, Saqib Ali wrote: > I am using Solaris 10, python 2.6.2, pexpect 2.4 > > I create a file called me.txt which contains the letters "A", "B", "C" > on the same line separated by tabs. [...] > Now, clearly the file contains tabs.
That is not clear at all. How do you know it contains tabs? How was the file created in the first place? Try this: text = open('me.txt', 'r').read() print '\t' in text My guess is that it will print False and that the file does not contain tabs. Check your editor used to create the file. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list