> The following code to search a file for tabs does not
> work, at least on Windows XP. Could someone please tell
> me what's wrong? Thanks.
>
> xfile = "file_with_tabs.txt"
> for text in open(xfile,"r"):
> text = text.strip()
> if ("\t" in text):
> print text
Well, are the tabs embedded, or at the beginning/end of the
line? If they're at the beginning/end of the line, you're
removing them with the strip() call.
Solution: don't do that. :)
Patient: "Doctor! It hurts when I press here."
Doctor: "Well don't press there"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ cat -A file_with_tabs.txt
^Ione^Itwo three^I $
five^Isix $
^I seven^Ieight^I$
^Inine^Iten ^I$
^Ieleven^I$
twelve^I$
^Ithirteen$
With this file, and without the strip() line in your
original, I get all the lines. With the strip, I don't get
the "eleven" line or following. If you were using strip()
to get rid of the newlines, you can easily enough do that with
text = text[:-1]
Or, depending on what your needs are, rstrip() may do the
trick for you.
Hope this helps,
-tkc
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