numpy.char.expandtabs

char.expandtabs(a, tabsize=8)

Return a copy of each string element where all tab characters are replaced by one or more spaces.

Calls str.expandtabs element-wise.

Return a copy of each string element where all tab characters are replaced by one or more spaces, depending on the current column and the given tabsize. The column number is reset to zero after each newline occurring in the string. This doesn’t understand other non-printing characters or escape sequences.

Parameters:

aarray-like, with StringDType, bytes_, or str_ dtype

Input array

tabsizeint, optional

Replace tabs with tabsize number of spaces. If not given defaults to 8 spaces.

Returns:

outndarray

Output array of StringDType, bytes_ or str_ dtype, depending on input type

See also

str.expandtabs

Examples

>>> import numpy as np
>>> a = np.array(['         Hello   world'])
>>> np.strings.expandtabs(a, tabsize=4)  
array(['        Hello   world'], dtype='<U21')