expandtabs() method in Python
The expandtabs() method returns a string with all tab characters replaced with given tab size.
Syntax
string.expandtabs(tabsize)
Parameters
- tabsize - (Optional) Specifying the tabsize. Default tabsize is 8.
The following example shows, how works the expandtabs() method.
Example
txt = "This\tis\tsample\ttext" print(txt.expandtabs()) print(txt.expandtabs(2)) print(txt.expandtabs(4)) print(txt.expandtabs(6))
Output
This is sample text This is sample text This is sample text This is sample text