[issue17806] Add keyword args support to str/bytes.expandtabs()

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson added the comment:

> For me s.expandtabs(3) looks more readable than s.expandtabs(tabsize=3).

I disagree:  I think the second is more readable, and I think it's especially helpful to those not intimately familiar with the language (which probably accounts for the vast majority of Python users) to see code like "s.expandtabs(tabsize=3)", or "int(43, base=8)", or "s.splitlines(keepends=True)":  such code is instantly understandable, whereas someone seeing "s.splitlines(True)" likely has to stop and wonder what the "True" is doing.

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