parsing tabs in a string

[Andrew Alzner]

Hello,

I'm getting to know Python and have a quick question for something I don't understand.

I'm trying to parse information extracted from a spreadsheet which is tab separated. Here is a simplified version of what I have:

list=['"103-01a-17"\t2\t33\t256\t227\n']
y=list[0]
print y.find("\t")
print y.find("\t",1)

I thought the second .find should return the second occurence of "\t". To get the index of the second tab I have to type:

print y.find("\t",13)

This doesn't make sense to me. Can someone help me please.

Thanks,
Andrew
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