[issue17670] expandtabs() weirdness

Roger Serwy added the comment: LGTM. -- nosy: +roger.serwy stage: patch review -> commit review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs

[issue17670] expandtabs() weirdness

Ned Deily added the comment: That's a good point. Here's a patch for the documentation with a simplified example: >>> '01\t456\t89'.expandtabs(4) '01 456 89' What do others think: is an example useful and, if so, this example? -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Do

[issue17670] expandtabs() weirdness

Alfredo Solano Martínez added the comment: It does, thank you. Maybe hat example could be added to the docuentation? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue17670] expandtabs() weirdness

Ned Deily added the comment: Yes, the behavior is by design. I think you are misunderstanding how exandtabs() works. The "tabsize" argument indicates the number of columns each tab position occupies. So, with a tabsize of 4, the tab positions occur every four columns; the tab positions are