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bytearray.expandtabs

bytearray — padding

Replace tabs with spaces up to the next tab stop.

Syntax

ba.expandtabs(...)

This does not insert a fixed number of spaces per tab: it tracks the current column and pads up to the next multiple of tabsize (8 by default). The same \t therefore expands to a different number of spaces depending on how many bytes precede it on the line, and \n or \r reset the column counter. A new bytearray is returned; the original is untouched.

Examples

print(bytearray(b'a\tb').expandtabs(4))   # → bytearray(b'a   b')
print(bytearray(b'a\tb').expandtabs())   # → bytearray(b'a       b')
print(bytearray(b'1\t22\t333').expandtabs(4).decode())   # → 1   22  333
print(bytearray(b'ab\tc').expandtabs(4))   # → bytearray(b'ab  c')
print(bytearray(b'abc').expandtabs(4))   # → bytearray(b'abc')

See also

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