[New-bugs-announce] [issue13365] str.expandtabs documentation is wrong

[John Feuerstein]

New submission from John Feuerstein <john at feurix.com>:

The documentation for str.expandtabs([tabsize]) is wrong:
 
"Return a copy of the string where all tab characters are replaced by one or more spaces, depending on the current column and the given tab size. [...]"

This should read "zero or more spaces":

>>> 'a\tb'.expandtabs(0)
'ab'
>>> 'a\tb'.expandtabs(-1)
'ab'

The description in Objects/unicodeobject.c does not include this error.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
files: expandtabs_doc.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 147222
nosy: docs at python, john.feuerstein
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: str.expandtabs documentation is wrong
versions: Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23625/expandtabs_doc.diff

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