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Python: Split string with multiple delimiters
Convert django Charfield “\t” to tab

I have written a python code in Eclipse which takes delimiters as an argument. When I do

print "Hello",delimiter, "All".

This generates –> Hello \t All, whereas if I overwrite the delimiter with delimiter = '\t' within the code, I get the right output Hello All. I wonder what is the difference? I hope this not just the eclipse thing.

Answer 1

The problem is that what is being passed in from the command line is actually a string of length two "\\t" and not a tab character. You can do the following to your delimiter

delimiter.decode("string_escape"))

that should convert the string '\\t' into '\t'. The answer comes from a duplicate questions here