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Sat Jun 12 11:31:08 CEST 1999 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/1999-June/095424.html

> expandtabs is used frequently in IDLE and even pyclbr.py now.  Curiously,
> though, they almost never want the tab-expanded string, but rather its len.

looked in stropmodule.c lately:

static PyObject *
strop_expandtabs(self, args)
...
 /* First pass: determine size of output string */
...
 /* Second pass: create output string and fill it */
...

(btw, I originally wrote that code for pythonworks ;-)

how about an "expandtabslength" method?

or maybe we should add lazy evaluation of strings!

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