Tab character in a string prints 8 spaces

[buran]

If the PEP8 defines the default should be 4 spaces, why is it defaulted to 8 spaces there? I mean its testing anyways, but it does confuse new people as to why they are sometimes getting 8 spaces when they are told they should be getting 4.

I didn't seen it explicitly stated in the docs and it's a guess, but if tabsize in expandtabs() is 8 it will be even more confusing if default is different when expamd \t escape sequence.