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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:00:23 -0600
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On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> Python 2 resolved this ambiguity by assuming that a hard tab was
> simply equivalent to four or eight spaces (I don't remember which).

In fact, neither is correct.  Per the docs:

    ...tabs are replaced (from left to right) by one to eight spaces
such that the total number of characters up to and including the
replacement is a multiple of eight...