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# Tab

class `astropy.io.ascii.basic.``Tab`

  Bases: `astropy.io.ascii.basic.Basic`

  Read a tab-separated file. Unlike the `Basic` reader, whitespace is not stripped from the beginning and end of lines. By default whitespace is still stripped from the beginning and end of individual column values.

  Example:

      col1 <tab> col2 <tab> col3
      # Comment line
      1 <tab> 2 <tab> 5