Python - String Method - expandtabs() Tutorial

It will return a string, with all '\t' in a string will be replaced with whitespace characters of default size 8. we can also modify the tab size by specifying the size as a parameter in expandtabs() methods.

Syntax-

String.expandtabs(tabsize)

#tabsize - (Optional)It is a size that needs to be set for the tab. 
by default, it is 8 if not specified

Example-  

str1 = "He\tllo\tPy\tthon"
print(str1)
print(str1.expandtabs())
print(str1.expandtabs(2))
print(str1.expandtabs(3))
print(str1.expandtabs(5))

Output-

He	    llo	    Py	    thon
He      llo     Py      thon
He  llo Py  thon
He llo   Py thon
He   llo  Py   thon