title: I am trying to do a split line by tab in an excel but it isn't working
body: <p>I am trying to  split line by tab with excel file to separate all the things in the cells. My code currently looks like this but something isn't right. I need to tell python to read my excel file and use split() to separate everything the cells. What am I doing wrong?</p>
  <p>lines = f.readlines()</p>
  <pre><code>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
  ~\AppData\Local\Temp/ipykernel_15432/3489501303.py in &lt;module&gt;
  ----&gt; 1 lines.split(&quot;\t&quot;)
  
  AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'split'
  </code></pre>