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Support for tab escape charcter missing. #3163
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Yup agreed, this is just an oversight. Shouldn't be a hard fix - would be a nice small issue for someone newer to the codebase to pick up (either on our internal team or someone external) |
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It is possible to create a string with a newline using
\n
in please strings, but not for a tab character with\t
.It is however still possible to use a literal tab character in string declarations to get the same effect, but saying that that is unreadable is putting it mildly.
For instance
stringWithTabs.lstrip(" ")
is the current workaround to the missing tab escape character, which would much more legibly readstringWithTabs.lstrip(" \t")
with the escape character.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: