Re: [Pyparsing] Check for tabs

[Diez B. R. <de...@we...>]

> 
> I'm new to pyparsing and relatively new to Python as well. I'm really astounded by the multitude of functionality that pyparsing has.
> My question is pretty basic:
> I have a string 'name\tdate\t\tlocation'.
> What would I do to ensure that between the 'name' and 'date' there is exactly one tab and between 'date' and 'location' there is exactly two tabs?

If that's all you have, I would forego pyparsing and use single string-functions like 

 name, date, _, location = line.split("\t")

plus of course some error-handling.

Diez