splitting a string based on tab in the file

Question

I have file that contains values separated by tab (\"\\t\"). I am trying to create a list and store all values of file in the list. But I get some problem. Here is my code.<

Answer 1

An other regex-based solution:

>>> strs = "foo\tbar\t\tspam"

>>> r = re.compile(r'([^\t]*)\t*')
>>> r.findall(strs)[:-1]
['foo', 'bar', 'spam']