How do I write a tab in Python

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Let s say I have a file  How do I write  hello  TAB  alex

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This is the code   f   open filename   w   f write  hello talex     The  t inside the string is the escape sequence for the horizontal tabulation

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Here are some more exotic Python 3 ways to get  hello  TAB  alex   tested with Python 3 6 10     hello N TAB alex    hello N tab alex    hello N TaB alex    hello N HT alex    hello N CHARACTER TABULATION alex    hello N HORIZONTAL TABULATION alex    hello x09alex    hello u0009alex    hello U00000009alex   Actually  instead of using an escape sequence  it is possible to insert tab symbol directly into the string literal  Here is the code with a tabulation character to copy and try    hello alex   If the tab in the string above won t be lost anywhere during copying the string then  print repr  lt  string from above     should print  hello talex    See respective Python documentation for reference

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As it wasn t mentioned in any answers  just in case you want to align and space your text  you can use the string format features   above python 2 5  Of course  t is actually a TAB token whereas the described method generates spaces   Example   print   0 30   1   format  hi    yes    gt  hi                             yes   Another Example  left aligned   print   0  lt 10   1  lt 10   2  lt 10   format 1 0  2 2  4 4    gt 1 0        2 2        4 4

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You can use  t in a string literal    hello talex

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It s usually  t in command-line interfaces  which will convert the char  t into the whitespace tab character   For example  hello talex -  hello--- gt alex

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Assume I have a variable named file that contains a file  Then I could use file write  quot hello talex quot     file write  quot hello means I m starting to write to this file   t means a tab alex quot   is the rest I m writing

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The Python reference manual includes several string literals that can be used in a string  These special sequences of characters are replaced by the intended meaning of the escape sequence    Here is a table of some of the more useful escape sequences and a description of the output from them   Escape Sequence       Meaning  t                    Tab                       Inserts a back slash                           Inserts a single quote                           Inserts a double quote      n                    Inserts a ASCII Linefeed  a new line    Basic Example  If i wanted to print some data points separated by a tab space I could print this string   DataString    0 t12 t24  print  DataString    Returns  0    12    24   Example for Lists  Here is another example where we are printing the items of list and we want to sperate the items by a TAB   DataPoints    0 12 24  print  str DataPoints 0       t    str DataPoints 1       t    str DataPoints 2      Returns  0    12    24   Raw Strings   Note that raw strings  a string which include a prefix  r    string literals will be ignored  This allows these special sequences of characters to be included in strings without being changed   DataString   r 0 t12 t24  print  DataString    Returns  0 t12 t24   Which maybe an undesired output  String Lengths  It should also be noted that string literals are only one character in length   DataString    0 t12 t24  print  len DataString     Returns  7   The raw string has a length of 9

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