textwrap.dedent replaces tabs?

Tom Plunket tomas at fancy.org
Sat Dec 30 00:55:29 EST 2006


OKB (not okblacke) wrote:

> > (You dedent common leading tabs, except if preceded by common leading 
> > spaces (?)). 
> 
>     There cannot be common leading tabs if they are preceded by 
> anything.  If they were preceded by something, they wouldn't be 
> "leading".

Right, but 'common leading whitespace' is a broader term but similarly
unambiguous.  <space><tab> != <tab>, but there are two tabs of common
leading whitespace in '\t\t ' and '\t\t\t'.

-tom!

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