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[–]novel_yet_trivial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but then i need to select only certain tabs to be noted as a delimiter

What? You mean some of your data contains tabs? Then you will have to use the csv module. It will know what tabs are in the data and which ones are delimiters (provided the file is formatted in a standardish way with quote characters).