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[Angus Rodgers]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:31:47 -0500, Kirk Strauser 
<kirk at daycos.com> wrote:

>At 2009-06-24T19:53:49Z, Angus Rodgers <twirlip at bigfoot.com> writes:
>
>> print ''.join(map(detab, f.xreadlines()))
>
>An equivalent in modern Pythons:
>
>>>> print ''.join(line.expandtabs(3) for line in file('h071.txt'))

I guess the code below would also have worked in 2.1?
(It does in 2.5.4.)

 print ''.join(line.expandtabs(3) for line in \
 file('h071.txt').xreadlines())

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Angus Rodgers