Question

i’ve been reading from the file and i have hard time getting rid of “\t”
i’ve tried using i.strip().split("\t")[1] and append it to the list. but if theres more tabs in a row it isnt very useful
for example:
if i do what i described i get

z=['\t\t\t\twoman-in-lingerie', 'newspaper-photo', 'reference-to-marie-antoinette', '\tempty-grave', '\t\t\tbased-on-play', '\t\t\tcanadian-humor', '\t\t\tsitcom', 'hypocrisy', 'stripper']

now i dont know how to remove those tabs, ive been trying to get trough the list and change each element on its own bit it was unsuccessful

Answer 1

If you’re just trying to remove tabs you can use this list comprehension:

l2 = [item.strip('\t') for item in l1]

That’ll get rid of any leading or trailing tabs on each element.