I can not figure out how generic text processors like Geany or the new default gnome Text Editor parse my text files. The column alignment is perfect. Using cat -nA sees the correct delimiters, but of course they are mysterious non-printing characters.
The closest I have gotten is pd.read_fwf. I would like to use pd.read_csv if I could figure out the right parameter combination.
If anyone has a suggestion about how to tell Pandas to delimit columns on those non-printing characters, it would be greatly appreciated.
I found the definitive answer on Stackoverflow. You have to read the whole discussion.
Non-printing characters in cat -v