[issue25871] textwrap.dedent doesn't find common substring when spaces and tabs are mixed

Chris Tozer added the comment: Yeah sorry - I am stuck on a baked-at-2.7.5 version thanks to CentOS. I was misled by the banner telling me it was more recent than the fix. I'll just close, I'm sure the fix in 2.7.11 is good, per issue 21827. -- status: open

[issue25871] textwrap.dedent doesn't find common substring when spaces and tabs are mixed

New submission from Chris Tozer: Two lines, one has three spaces, one has two spaces then a tab - dedent doesn't take the two spaces away... Python 2.7.5 (default, Nov 20 2015, 02:00:19) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "