How to vertically align tabulator separated values in Notepad++

I have a txt file with 406'000 lines (100MB size) and would like to view it with Notepad++ instead of Excel, because it's much faster.

How can I separate columns with a tabulator delimiter?

I'm refering to this post: How to vertically align comma separated values in Notepad++?

I really appreciate the answer from zerokelvin:

You can use this python plugin script which utilizes the csv library which takes care of quoted csv and many other variants.

Setup:

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1. Use the plugin manager in Notepad++ to install the "Python script" plugin.
2. Plugins->Python Script->New Script (name it something like CSVtoTable.py)
3. Paste the following python script into the new file and save:

CSVtoTable.py

import csv

inputlines = editor.getText().split('\n')
# Get rid of empty lines
inputlines = [line.strip() for line in inputlines if line.strip()]
reader = csv.reader(inputlines, delimiter=',')
csvlist = [line for line in reader]
# transpose to calculate the column widths and create a format string which left aligns each row
t_csvlist = zip(*csvlist)
col_widths = [max([len(x) for x in t_csvlist[y]]) for y in range(len(t_csvlist))]
# To right align - change < to >
fmt_str = ' '.join(['{{:<{0}}}'.format(x) for x in col_widths]) + '\r\n'

text = []
for line in csvlist: 
    text.append(fmt_str.format(*line))

# open a new document and put the results in there.    
notepad.new()
editor.addText(''.join(text))

4. Open your CSV file in notepad++
5. Click on Plugins->Python Script->Scripts->(The name you used in step 2)
6. A new tab with the formatted data should open.

Update (right aligned numbers & left aligned strings): ------- Use the following python script if you want to right align number fields from the CSV - it looks at the second line of the csv to determine the types of the fields.

import csv
import re

num_re = re.compile('[-\+]?\d+(\.\d+)?')

inputlines = editor.getText().split('\n')
# Get rid of empty lines
inputlines = [line.strip() for line in inputlines if line.strip()]
reader = csv.reader(inputlines, delimiter=',')
csvlist = [line for line in reader]

# Transpose to calculate the column widths and create a format string which left aligns each row
t_csvlist = zip(*csvlist)
col_widths = [max([len(x) for x in t_csvlist[y]]) for y in range(len(t_csvlist))]

# Numbers get right aligned
type_eval_line = csvlist[1 if len(csvlist)>1 else 0]
alignment = ['>' if num_re.match(item) else '<' for item in type_eval_line]

# Compute the format string
fmt_str = ' '.join(['{{:{0}{1}}}'.format(a,x) for x,a in zip(col_widths,alignment)]) + '\r\n'

text = []
for line in csvlist: 
    text.append(fmt_str.format(*line))

# open a new document and put the results in there.    
notepad.new()
editor.addText(''.join(text))

How can this Python script be modified if the delimiter is not a comma but a tabulator?

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