Pyhton has a method called replace in string class. It takes as input the string to be replaced and string to replace with. It is called on a string object. You can call this method to replace tabs by spaces in the following way:
print( 'replace tabs in this string'.replace('\t', ''))
OUTPUT
replace tabs in this string
The 're' module in python can also be used to get the same result using regexes. re.sub(regex_to_replace, regex_to_replace_with, string) can be used to replace the characters in string. For example,
import re print(re.sub('\t', '', 'replace tabs in this string'))
OUTPUT
replace tabs in this string