From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1992 15:13:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add function to expand tabs.
X-Git-Tag: v0.9.8~459
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6ff2e90c518113433b3ecf34b8c17d434079a414;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add function to expand tabs.
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diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index f7d4af6b1e1a..cfb977fcc3f1 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -143,3 +143,16 @@ def zfill(x, width):
 	if s[0] in ('-', '+'):
 		sign, s = s[0], s[1:]
 	return sign + '0'*(width-n) + s
+
+# Expand tabs in a string.
+# Doesn't take non-printing chars into account, but does understand \n.
+def expandtabs(s, tabsize):
+	res = line = ''
+	for c in s:
+		if c == '\t':
+			c = ' '*(tabsize - len(line)%tabsize)
+		line = line + c
+		if c == '\n':
+			res = res + line
+			line = ''
+	return res + line
diff --git a/Lib/stringold.py b/Lib/stringold.py
index f7d4af6b1e1a..cfb977fcc3f1 100644
--- a/Lib/stringold.py
+++ b/Lib/stringold.py
@@ -143,3 +143,16 @@ def zfill(x, width):
 	if s[0] in ('-', '+'):
 		sign, s = s[0], s[1:]
 	return sign + '0'*(width-n) + s
+
+# Expand tabs in a string.
+# Doesn't take non-printing chars into account, but does understand \n.
+def expandtabs(s, tabsize):
+	res = line = ''
+	for c in s:
+		if c == '\t':
+			c = ' '*(tabsize - len(line)%tabsize)
+		line = line + c
+		if c == '\n':
+			res = res + line
+			line = ''
+	return res + line