Peter Otten wrote: > > I guess I could manually replace all tabs with eight > > spaces (as opposed to 'correct' tab stops), and then replace them when > > done, but it's probably just as easy to write a non-destructive dedent. > > You mean, as easy as > > >>> "\talpha\tbeta\t".expandtabs() > ' alpha beta ' > > ?
Umm, no, that's why I wrote "eight spaces (as opposed to 'correct' tab stops)". In either case, though, it'd be hard to know how to replace the tabs, so it'd be better not to remove them in the first place. Indeed, dedent() would work perfectly for my cases if it simply didn't do the expandtabs() in the first place, but there'd be some pretty glaring holes in its logic then. I've since written up a fairly reasonable (IMO) replacement though, that started with textwrap.dedent(), removed the expandtabs() call, and Does The Right Thing with tabs vs. spaces (e.g. it doesn't treat a tab at the beginning of a line as the same as eight spaces). -tom! -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
