# HG changeset patch
# Parent 39b9b05c3085d5e51092494f4a41850d41008b1d
Issue #17670: Provide an example of expandtabs() usage.


diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1532,6 +1532,9 @@
    If *tabsize* is not given, a tab size of ``8`` characters is assumed.  This
    doesn't understand other non-printing characters or escape sequences.
 
+      >>> '01\t456\t89'.expandtabs(4)
+      '01  456 89'
+
 
 .. method:: str.find(sub[, start[, end]])