title: python reading a tab separated file using delimiter
body: <p>I am using the following to read a tab separated file .There are three columns in the file but the first column is being ignored when i print the column header only.how can i include the first column too</p>
  
  <pre><code>f = open("/tmp/data.txt")
  for l in f.readlines():
    print l.strip().split("\t")
    break
    f.close()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Output:  ['session_id\t', '\tevent_id_concat'] </p>
  
  <p>The first column name is <code>id</code> where it s not printed in the above array</p>
  
  <p><code>EDIT</code></p>
  
  <p>print l yields the following</p>
  
  <p>EDIT 1:</p>
  
  <pre><code>   'id\tsession_id\tevent_id_concat\r\n'
  
     Output: ['id\t', '\tevent_id_concat'] 
  </code></pre>