Question

Explain expandtabs(tabsize=8) with example

Answer 1

tabsize − This specifies the number of characters to be replaced for a tab character '\t'.

Return Value

This method returns a copy of the string in which tab characters i.e., '\t' have been expanded using spaces.

Example

Live Demo

#!/usr/bin/python

str = "this is\tstring example....wow!!!";

print "Original string: " + str

print "Defualt exapanded tab: " + str.expandtabs()

print "Double exapanded tab: " + str.