python reading a tab separated file using delimiter
<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()
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<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'] 
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