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Italo Lemos
Italo Lemos

Reputation: 1022

Python split() return more characters

I have a .txt file and this is my lines:

1 word word \\123\\3456\\0000

the delimiter is .split('\t') and I expected the following list:

[1, 'word', 'word', '\\123\\3456\\0000']

but on my last character the split method is returning: '\\\\123\\\\3456\\\0000' with two more '\\'

Does anyone know where is my mistake?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 89

Answers (1)

pacholik
pacholik

Reputation: 8982

That is just a representation of a string, double backslash means one backslash.

If you try to print it, it will appear correctly

>>> for i in s.split('\t'):
...     print(i)
... 
1
word
word
\\123\\3456\\0000

String and Bytes literals

Upvotes: 4

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