[Tutor] problem with str.count and str.split

[Tim Johnson]

Correction below:
* Tim Johnson <tim at johnsons-web.com> [040506 19:17]:
> Hello:
>     I am importing TAB-delimited text data.
> 
>     Each line is read in as a string with the newline removed.
> 
>     Each line is parsed into a list with TAB as a delimiter.
>     code:
>       vals = line.split('\t') 
> 
>     It is expected that this line should have 75 TAB characters
>     imbedded, and that the resulting list (vals) should have 76 members,
>     
>     An exception is thrown when a line is 'split' into a list
>     with only 44 members, and when the exception is thrown, 
>     I use line.count('\t') to retrieve the number of embedded
>     TABS and line.count('\t') returns the number 43.
> 
>     Visual Inspection:
>           If I look at this line in an editor that allows 
>           TABS to be visible, I can manually count 75 TAB characters.
>             
>     Alternative Methods:
>           This service was prototyped in another
>           programming language (rebol) and all lines are
>           being split successfully, finding 75 TABS and returning
>           a list with 75 members.
            a list with *76* members...
> 
>    I'd welcome comments, suggestions on this matter. I'm not about
>    to get goofy and claim I've found a bug in python, I'm guessing
>    that I should be using a more pythonesque approach to parsing
>    these lines.
> 
> thanks
> tim
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