On Mar 11, 8:37 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you mix tabs+spaces, Python simple replaces each tab by 8 spaces. >
Are you sure about this? This is not the tab problem I am familiar with in the past. In the following sample, the columnar text labeled 'col2' should all be aligned at column 9: x<tab>col2 xxx<tab>col2 <tab>col2 In the first line, the tab is replaced with 7 spaces, the second line by 5, and the third line by 6. So tab replacement is a bit more involved than simply "s/\t/ /g". As I recall, the number of spaces to replace a tab by is something like 8-(col % 8) where col is the column location of the tab with the left most column being 0. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
