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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1999-01-25 22:31:53 +0000
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1999-01-25 22:31:53 +0000
commit9700e9becc81aaba6290c120b518568a460315cd (patch)
tree5bd2ba476e275e32146d5eaaf074417ad3a36a3e
parent3e0d3191961734067465ffa1b1d671d245c98813 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-9700e9becc81aaba6290c120b518568a460315cd.tar.gz
Document the default for tabsize in expandtabs().
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libstring.tex4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
index 4bf29032a1..442486369b 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
@@ -102,12 +102,12 @@ The functions defined in this module are:
trailing whitespace.
\end{funcdesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{expandtabs}{s, tabsize}
+\begin{funcdesc}{expandtabs}{s, \optional{tabsize}}
Expand tabs in a string, i.e.\ replace them by one or more spaces,
depending on the current column and the given tab size. The column
number is reset to zero after each newline occurring in the string.
This doesn't understand other non-printing characters or escape
- sequences.
+ sequences. The tab size defaults to 8.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{find}{s, sub\optional{, start\optional{,end}}}